Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 17, 2013 at 14:05 UTC
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@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as
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+ if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in
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+ Gerrit).
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* "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a few formatting directives;
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e.g. "%(color:red)%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(refname:short) %(subject)".
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@@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed;
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+ use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code.
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+ * A few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix string comparison
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+ functions have been unified to starts_with() and ends_with().
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* The new PERLLIB_EXTRA makefile variable can be used to specify
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additional directories Perl modules (e.g. the ones necessary to run
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git-svn) are installed on the platform when building.
@@ -131,6 +141,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
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for details).
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+ * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
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+ out, but it didn't.
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+ (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint).
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+ * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been
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+ retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that
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+ corrupts system error messages in non-C locales.
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+ * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
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+ layer in "git send-email".
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+ (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint).
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+ * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
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+ editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
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+ control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
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+ first modified path was a submodule.
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+ (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored.
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+ Diagnose it as an error.
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+ (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint).
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+ * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
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+ parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
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+ to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.
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+ (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint).
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* "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
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command line parser.
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(merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint).