Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 18, 2013 at 12:57 UTC
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@@ -76,9 +76,21 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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* git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate,
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when https:// connection failed.
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+ * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) adds a command to allow previewing the
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+ contents locally before pushing it out, when working with a
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+ MediaWiki remote.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git cat-file --batch-check=<format>" is added, primarily to allow
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+ on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot
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+ smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be
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+ reported.
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+ * "git rebase [-i]" used to leave just "rebase" as its reflog messages
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+ for some operations. They have been reworded to be more informative.
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* In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach",
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"submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to
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update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update"
@@ -268,6 +280,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
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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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+ * Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message
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+ did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters.
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+ (merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint).
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* Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes
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Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port.
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This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given.