Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ Read-only support for experimental loose-object format, in which users
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could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short
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while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped.
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+The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the
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+command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same
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+command line without the option.
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+A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are
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+finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).
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Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
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Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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- * The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotinate, uses "100
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+ * The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotiate, uses "100
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Continue" response to avoid having to rewind and resend a large
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payload, which may not be always doable.
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@@ -91,6 +98,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git rev-parse --parseopt" learned a new "--stuck-long" option to
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help scripts parse options with an optional parameter.
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+ * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to
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+ fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_
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+ what are fetched by the same command line without the option.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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@@ -103,6 +114,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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point out of the reflog entries for the remote-tracking branch the
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work has been based on.
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+ * A third-party "receive-pack" (the responder to "git push") can
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+ advertise the "no-thin" capability to tell "git push" not to use
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+ the thin-pack optimization. Our receive-pack has always been
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+ capable of accepting and fattening a thin-pack, and will continue
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+ not to ask "git push" to use a non-thin pack.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.