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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-07-18 12:57:38 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-07-18 13:00:08 -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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@@ -76,9 +76,21 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
* git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate,
when https:// connection failed.
+ * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) adds a command to allow previewing the
+ contents locally before pushing it out, when working with a
+ MediaWiki remote.
+
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "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
+ reported.
+
+ * "git rebase [-i]" used to leave just "rebase" as its reflog messages
+ for some operations. They have been reworded to be more informative.
+
* In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach",
"submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to
update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update"
@@ -268,6 +280,10 @@ 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).
+ * 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).
+
* Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes
Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port.
This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given.