Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 1, 2013 at 08:14 UTC
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@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * xdg-open can be used as a browser backend for "git web-browse"
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+ (hence to show "git help -w" output), when available.
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* "git grep" and "git show" pays attention to "--textconv" option
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when these commands are told to operate on blob objects (e.g. "git
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grep -e pattern HEAD:Makefile").
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sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured
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to build on some other branch that no longer exists.
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- * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and
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- will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving
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- data over the wire.
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* Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to
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the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to
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allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such
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* "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer"
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optimization.
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- * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both
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- Makefile and makefile can be used in more places.
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+ * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both Makefile
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+ and makefile and ":(glob)foo/**/bar" that matches "bar" in "foo"
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+ and any subdirectory of "foo" can be used in more places.
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* The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the
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configuration applies. For example,
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * "git for-each-ref" when asking for merely the object name does not
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+ have to parse the object pointed at by the refs; the codepath has
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+ been optimized.
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* The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able.
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* "git repack" is now written in C.
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * A fast-import stream expresses a pathname with funny characters by
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+ quoting them in C style; remote-hg remote helper forgot to unquote
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+ such a path.
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+ (merge 1136265 ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote later to maint).
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+ * "git reset -p HEAD" has a codepath to special case it to behave
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+ differently from resetting to contents of other commits, but a
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+ recent change broke it.
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* Coloring around octopus merges in "log --graph" output was screwy.
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(merge 339c17b hn/log-graph-color-octopus later to maint).
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