Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the second batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 9, 2013 at 14:51 UTC
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@@ -63,6 +63,43 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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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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+ * The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the
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+ configuration applies. For example,
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+ [http]
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+ sslVerify = true
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+ [http "https://weak.example.com/"]
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+ sslVerify = false
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+ would flip http.sslVerify off only when talking to that specified
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+ site.
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+ * "git mv A B" when moving a submodule A has been taught to
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+ relocate its working tree and to adjust the paths in the
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+ .gitmodules file.
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+ * "git blame" can now take more than one -L option to discover the
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+ origin of multiple blocks of the lines.
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+ * The http transport clients can optionally ask to save cookies
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+ with http.savecookies configuration variable.
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+ * "git push" learned a more fine grained control over a blunt
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+ "--force" when requesting a non-fast-forward update with the
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+ "--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expected object name>" option.
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+ * "git diff --diff-filter=<classes of changes>" can now take
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+ lowercase letters (e.g. "--diff-filter=d") to mean "show
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+ everything but these classes". "git diff-files -q" is now a
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+ deprecated synonym for "git diff-files --diff-filter=d".
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+ * "git fetch" (hence "git pull" as well) learned to check
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+ "fetch.prune" and "remote.*.prune" configuration variables and
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+ to behave as if the "--prune" command line option was given.
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* "git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input
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(with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the
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option on the output side. Make both honor -z on the input and
@@ -107,6 +144,28 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 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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+ * The mailmap support code read past the allocated buffer when the
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+ mailmap file ended with an incomplete line.
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+ (merge f972a16 jk/mailmap-incomplete-line later to maint).
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+ * We used to send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a single
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+ system call, which was bad from the latency point of view when
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+ the operation needs to be killed, and also triggered an error on
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+ broken 64-bit systems that refuse to take more than 2GB read or
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+ write in one go.
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+ (merge a487916 sp/clip-read-write-to-8mb later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch" that auto-followed tags incorrectly reused the
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+ connection with Git-aware transport helper (like the sample "ext::"
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+ helper shipped with Git).
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+ (merge 0f73f8b jc/transport-do-not-use-connect-twice-in-fetch later to maint).
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+ * "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" showed a huge diff for paths
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+ outside the given <pathspec> for each commit, instead of showing
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+ the change relative to the parent of the commit. "git reflog -p"
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+ had a similar problem.
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+ (merge 838f9a1 tr/log-full-diff-keep-true-parents later to maint).
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* Setting submodule.*.path configuration variable to true (without
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giving "= value") caused Git to segfault.
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(merge 4b05440 jl/some-submodule-config-are-not-boolean later to maint).