Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 10, 2013 at 20:47 UTC
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All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
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caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
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+ * The completion script (in contrib/completion) used to let the
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+ default completer to suggest pathnames, which gave too many
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+ irrelevant choices (e.g. "git add" would not want to add an
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+ unmodified path). It learnt to use a more git-aware logic to
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+ enumerate only relevant ones.
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* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
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mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
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tools in server settings.
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was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
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degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
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+ * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes
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+ back from the server side to make sure that the request is being
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+ handled properly.
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+ (merge 3443db5 sp/smart-http-content-type-check later to maint).
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* "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
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when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
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* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
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excess trailing blank lines.
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+ * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity
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+ value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a
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+ bogus value.
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+ (merge afcb6ac jk/apply-similaritly-parsing later to maint).
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* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
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way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
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failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
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This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
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+ * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input,
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+ resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing
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+ the "--raw --cc" output.
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+ (merge edbc00e jc/combine-diff-many-parents later to maint).
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* "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
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resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
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unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
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unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
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distros.
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+ * The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated
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+ config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir.
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+ (merge fc1c541 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint).
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* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
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old version of the tutorial; removed.
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