Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 5, 2013 at 15:14 UTC
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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
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* "git describe" learned "--first-parent" option to limit its closest
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- tagged commmit search to the first-parent chain.
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+ tagged commit search to the first-parent chain.
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* "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo" is
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diagnosed with a more informative error message.
@@ -32,14 +32,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Updates to completion (both bash and zsh) helpers.
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+ * The behaviour of the "--chain-reply-to" option of "git send-email"
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+ have changed at 1.7.0, and we added a warning/advice message to
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+ help users adjust to the new behaviour back then, but we kept it
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+ around for too long. The message has finally been removed.
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* "git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch"
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did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early
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design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches
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predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more
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- convenient to opportunisticly update them whenever we have a
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+ convenient to opportunistically update them whenever we have a
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chance, and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which
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already breaks the original "predictability" anyway.
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+ * The configuration variable core.checkstat was advertised in the
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+ documentation but the code expected core.statinfo instead.
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+ For now, we accept both core.checkstat and core.statinfo, but the
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+ latter will be removed in the longer term.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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@@ -74,6 +84,31 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 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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+ * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
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+ broken in the update to v1.8.3.
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+ (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).
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+ * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not
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+ work due to slight differences in array variable notation between
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+ these two shells.
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+ (merge d0583da tg/maint-zsh-svn-remote-prompt later to maint).
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+ * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git
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+ can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link
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+ by mistake.
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+ (merge 4c32e36 nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented.
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+ (merge 90d32d1 tr/push-no-verify-doc later to maint).
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+ * Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for
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+ testing.
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+ (merge 416fda6 fc/makefile later to maint).
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+ * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an
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+ editor.
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+ (merge 2520677 rs/commit-m-no-edit later to maint).
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* "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22"
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incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be
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rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead).