Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 7, 2013 at 14:40 UTC
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@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow
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+ is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the
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+ "origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the
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+ branch.*.remote) configuration variables.
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+ * "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a
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+ revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect
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+ session.
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+ * The handing by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms
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+ of errorneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
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* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
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a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it.
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An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
@@ -101,6 +113,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Updates for building under msvc.
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+ * The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for
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+ shared repositories have been simplified.
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* A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
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hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
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repeatedly growing and rehashing.
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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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+ * 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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+ (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint).
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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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not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code