Git 1.8.3-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 26, 2013 at 15:45 UTC
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@@ -29,13 +29,20 @@ run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the
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current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different
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from today's version in such a situation.
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+In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so
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+that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory
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+and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this
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+release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this
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+behaviour is encouraged to use "git add --ignore-removal <path>" and
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+get used to it.
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Updates since v1.8.2
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Foreign interface
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- * remote-hg helper (in contrib/) has been updated.
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+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
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returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang
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sideband thread.
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- (merge 49ecfa1 jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure later to maint).
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* Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked
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files needs to be escaped with another '%'.
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- (merge 24b6132 fc/untracked-zsh-prompt later to maint).
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* A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
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crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
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timestamp can always be found in it.
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- (merge de5abe9 jk/chopped-ident later to maint).
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* When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
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"git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said
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there was a programming error to trigger the die handler
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recursively.
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- (merge 1ece66b jk/a-thread-only-dies-once later to maint).
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* "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into input
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buffer around as human readble object names. This was not a huge
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the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
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Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
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error reporting code may write into them.
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* "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
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ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
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* "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
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--diff-algorithm=algo".
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* The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
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places.
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* "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
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any message as its one of the prerequistes.
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* "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
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there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
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option.
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* When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
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failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the
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final clean-up procedure.
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* "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
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"git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
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notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
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based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears
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* Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
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trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
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* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
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when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
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* "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support
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"--option=value" form.
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* "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute
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delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
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* "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
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of mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers.
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* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
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platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
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* Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
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* "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
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instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
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