f51a757faf · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

58 always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer

59 needed, you can just say "git cmd :/".

60

61 + * Various "hint" lines Git gives when it asks the user to edit

62 + messages in the editor are commented out with '#' by default. The

63 + core.commentchar configuration variable can be used to customize

64 + this '#' to a different character.

65 +

66 + * "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec issues warning to

67 + make users aware that they are only operating on paths inside the

68 + subdirectory they are in. Use ":/" (everything from the top) or

69 + "." (everything from the $cwd) to disambiguate.

70 +

71 * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.

72

73 * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has

@@ -92,6 +102,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

102 * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a

103 fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.

104

105 + * Error messages from "git push" when it stops to prevent remote refs

106 + from getting overwritten by mistake have been improved to explain

107 + various situations separately.

108 +

109 * "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push"

110 hook exists and exits with a failure.

111

@@ -121,7 +135,8 @@ Foreign Interface

135 * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.

136

137 * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. It is

124 - also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5.

138 + also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5. In addition, its various

139 + portability issues for Cygwin have been addressed.

140

141 * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few

142 fixes.

@@ -198,7 +213,7 @@ details).

213 attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn

214 launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that

215 signal and die. We ignore these signals now.

201 - (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).

216 + (merge 0398fc34 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).

217

218 * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was

219 reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was

@@ -210,18 +225,15 @@ details).

225 * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from

226 /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug

227 lost the "user@" part.

213 - (merge dc342a2 jn/do-not-drop-username-when-reading-from-etc-mailname later to maint).

228

229 * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be

230 applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the

231 exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that

232 was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance

233 degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.

220 - (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint).

234

235 * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,

236 when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).

224 - (merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint).

237

238 * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing

239 excess trailing blank lines.

@@ -232,9 +244,12 @@ details).

244 * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when

245 streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.

246

247 + * "git archive" did not parse configuration values in tar.* namespace

248 + correctly.

249 + (merge b3873c3 jk/config-parsing-cleanup later to maint).

250 +

251 * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while

252 being on a detached HEAD, errored out.

237 - (merge 75135b2 nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached later to maint).

253

254 * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up

255 finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a

@@ -254,6 +269,10 @@ details).

269 command, and documentation was misleading.

270 (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint).

271

272 + * "git log --all -p" that walked refs/notes/textconv/ ref can later

273 + try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed.

274 + (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint).

275 +

276 * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and

277 GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.

278

@@ -275,7 +294,6 @@ details).

294

295 * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions

296 of Git.

278 - (merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint).

297

298 * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done

299 on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded

@@ -313,7 +331,6 @@ details).

331

332 * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with

333 older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.

316 - (merge 50c5885 bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash later to maint).

334

335 * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it

336 around by explicitly setting it to the default value.

@@ -330,7 +347,6 @@ details).

347

348 * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some

349 time ago.

333 - (merge 336e2e2 tb/t0050-maint later to maint).

350

351 * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that

352 broke on OpenBSD.

Update draft release notes to 1.8.2