From bb80ee09974667a1db6bbc5e33574ed869b76a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:51:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the second batch of topics Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt index 3b43a61d85..49a1c6c36b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt @@ -63,6 +63,43 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both + Makefile and makefile can be used in more places. + + * The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the + configuration applies. For example, + + [http] + sslVerify = true + [http "https://weak.example.com/"] + sslVerify = false + + would flip http.sslVerify off only when talking to that specified + site. + + * "git mv A B" when moving a submodule A has been taught to + relocate its working tree and to adjust the paths in the + .gitmodules file. + + * "git blame" can now take more than one -L option to discover the + origin of multiple blocks of the lines. + + * The http transport clients can optionally ask to save cookies + with http.savecookies configuration variable. + + * "git push" learned a more fine grained control over a blunt + "--force" when requesting a non-fast-forward update with the + "--force-with-lease=:" option. + + * "git diff --diff-filter=" can now take + lowercase letters (e.g. "--diff-filter=d") to mean "show + everything but these classes". "git diff-files -q" is now a + deprecated synonym for "git diff-files --diff-filter=d". + + * "git fetch" (hence "git pull" as well) learned to check + "fetch.prune" and "remote.*.prune" configuration variables and + to behave as if the "--prune" command line option was given. + * "git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input (with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the option on the output side. Make both honor -z on the input and @@ -107,6 +144,28 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * The mailmap support code read past the allocated buffer when the + mailmap file ended with an incomplete line. + (merge f972a16 jk/mailmap-incomplete-line later to maint). + + * We used to send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a single + system call, which was bad from the latency point of view when + the operation needs to be killed, and also triggered an error on + broken 64-bit systems that refuse to take more than 2GB read or + write in one go. + (merge a487916 sp/clip-read-write-to-8mb later to maint). + + * "git fetch" that auto-followed tags incorrectly reused the + connection with Git-aware transport helper (like the sample "ext::" + helper shipped with Git). + (merge 0f73f8b jc/transport-do-not-use-connect-twice-in-fetch later to maint). + + * "git log --full-diff -- " showed a huge diff for paths + outside the given for each commit, instead of showing + the change relative to the parent of the commit. "git reflog -p" + had a similar problem. + (merge 838f9a1 tr/log-full-diff-keep-true-parents later to maint). + * Setting submodule.*.path configuration variable to true (without giving "= value") caused Git to segfault. (merge 4b05440 jl/some-submodule-config-are-not-boolean later to maint).