Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is
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important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec)
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updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start
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training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean
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-it before Git 2.0 comes.
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+it before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are
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+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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Updates since v1.8.2
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
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+ integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
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+ which defaults to blue).
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+ * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to
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+ show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
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+ * "git cherry-pick $blob" and "git cherry-pick $tree" are nonsense,
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+ and a more readable error message e.g. "can't cherry-pick a tree"
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+ is given (we used to say "expected exactly one commit").
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* The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
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off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
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can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
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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 "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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+ problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
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+ error output.
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+ (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint).
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* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
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GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
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like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.