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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-26 15:10:17 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-26 15:10:17 -0700
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Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
+ * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start
+ a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others).
+
### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
@@ -154,6 +157,15 @@ 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).
+ * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by
+ programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in
+ v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks.
+ (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint).
+
+ * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a
+ path whose name is not in ASCII.
+ (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint).
+
* "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
(merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).