Update draft release notes to 1.8.4

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2013-07-22 11:34:10 -07:00
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@ -83,6 +83,28 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git clean" command learned an interactive mode.
* The "--head" option to "git show-ref" was only to add "HEAD" to the
list of candidate refs to be filtered by the usual rules
(e.g. "--heads" that only show refs under refs/heads). The meaning
of the option has been changed to always show "HEAD" regardless of
what filtering will be applied to any other ref.
This is a backward incompatible change and might cause breakages to
people's existing scripts.
* "git show -s" was less discoverable than it should have been. It
now has a natural synonym "git show --no-patch".
* "git check-mailmap" is a new command that lets you map usernames
and e-mail addresses through the mailmap mechanism, just like many
built-in commands do.
* "git name-rev" learned to name an annotated tag object back to its
tagname; "git name-rev $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)" gives "tags/v1.0.0",
for example.
* "git cat-file --batch-check=<format>" is added, primarily to allow
on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot
smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be
@ -212,6 +234,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in
use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
(i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).
* The code to allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob
objects is in. This may help working in a bare repository and
submodule updates.
* Fetching between repositories with many refs employed O(n^2)
algorithm to match up the common objects, which has been corrected.
@ -280,6 +310,26 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
* Newer Net::SMTP::SSL module does not want the user programs to use
the default behaviour to let server certificate go without
verification, so by default enable the verification with a
mechanism to turn it off if needed.
(merge 35035bb rr/send-email-ssl-verify later to maint).
* When "git" is spawned in such a way that any of the low 3 file
descriptors is closed, our first open() may yield file descriptor 2,
and writing error message to it would screw things up in a big way.
(merge a11c396 tr/protect-low-3-fds later to maint).
* The mailmap mechanism unnecessarily downcased the e-mail addresses
in the output, and also ignored the human name when it is a single
character name.
(merge bd23794 jc/mailmap-case-insensitivity later to maint).
* In two places we did not check return value (expected to be a file
descriptor) correctly.
(merge a77f106 tr/fd-gotcha-fixes later to maint).
* Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message
did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters.
(merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint).