Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 1, 2013 at 15:32 UTC
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@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Foreign interface
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
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+ show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
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+ replayed during a "git rebase" session.
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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 difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
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being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
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- same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
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- tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
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- in the working tree.
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+ same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working
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+ tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged
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+ manually.
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* There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
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outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
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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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+ * Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing
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+ up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the
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+ callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it.
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+ (merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint).
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+ * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
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+ command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
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+ (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint).
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* When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in
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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 hung