Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git log" that shows the difference between the parent and the
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child has been optimized somewhat.
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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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* 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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making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
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can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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@ -105,6 +116,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath
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that needs to use a more correct one.
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* "git checkout" had repeated pathspec matches on the same paths,
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which have been consolidated. Also a bug in "git checkout dir/"
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that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@ -116,6 +131,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 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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* Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
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trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
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(merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
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* "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
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longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
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(merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
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* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
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when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
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(merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint).
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* "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support
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"--option=value" form.
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(merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).
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* "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta
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depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
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(merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
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@ -127,22 +158,18 @@ details).
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* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
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platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
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hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
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(merge 2092678 kb/name-hash later to maint).
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* Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
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correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
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(merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint).
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* Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
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(merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).
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* "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
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instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
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(merge f612a67 lf/setup-prefix-pathspec later to maint).
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* "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
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creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
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(merge 3ae851e ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation later to maint).
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* "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4
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client was not its real path.
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@ -151,16 +178,13 @@ details).
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* "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
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of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
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archive back in such a case.
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(merge bd54cf1 jk/empty-archive later to maint).
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* When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
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it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
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the middle of it.
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(merge 6cd3c05 ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time later to maint).
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* An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
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it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
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(merge 2cd83d1 jk/alias-in-bare later to maint).
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* In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
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correct objects.
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@ -173,7 +197,6 @@ details).
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"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
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base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
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to those that match the given pattern.
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(merge 46e1d6e jc/describe later to maint).
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* Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
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command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
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@ -210,7 +233,6 @@ details).
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* 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
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$msg already ended with one.
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(merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint).
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* The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
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Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
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@ -224,7 +246,6 @@ details).
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* Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
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or en/US locale.
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(merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint).
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* Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
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most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
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