diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 179 |
1 files changed, 179 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6dda09560 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +Git v1.8.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.8.3 +-------------------- + +Foreign interface + + * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and + maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. + + * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to + update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side + does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do + --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now. + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work + more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. + + * "git describe" learned "--first-parent" option to limit its closest + tagged commit search to the first-parent chain. + + * "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo" is + diagnosed with a more informative error message. + + * "git log -L<line>,<range>:<filename>" has been added. This may + still have leaks and rough edges, though. + + * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options + of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and + --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. + "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing + function for expiry dates. + + * Updates to completion (both bash and zsh) helpers. + + * The behaviour of the "--chain-reply-to" option of "git send-email" + have changed at 1.7.0, and we added a warning/advice message to + help users adjust to the new behaviour back then, but we kept it + around for too long. The message has finally been removed. + + * "git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch" + did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early + design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches + predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more + convenient to opportunistically update them whenever we have a + chance, and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which + already breaks the original "predictability" anyway. + + * The configuration variable core.checkstat was advertised in the + documentation but the code expected core.statinfo instead. + For now, we accept both core.checkstat and core.statinfo, but the + latter will be removed in the longer term. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * The codepath to read from marks files in fast-import/export did not + have to accept anything but 40-hex representation of the object + name. Further, fast-export did not need full in-core object + representation to have parsed wen reading from them. These + codepaths have been optimized by taking advantage of these access + patterns. + + * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become + crowded, has been optimized. + + * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat + inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic + to summarize the results looked at a wrong place. + + * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure + that the history behind refs are complete. + + * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been + squelched. + + * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated, + correcting corner case bugs. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.3 +------------------ + +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). + + * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the + end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some + cases. + (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint). + + * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so + it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push + out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the + command was started. + (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint). + + * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch + being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the + plain vanilla "rebase". + (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint). + + * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was + broken in the update to v1.8.3. + (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint). + + * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not + work due to slight differences in array variable notation between + these two shells. + (merge d0583da tg/maint-zsh-svn-remote-prompt later to maint). + + * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git + can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link + by mistake. + (merge 4c32e36 nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix later to maint). + + * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented. + (merge 90d32d1 tr/push-no-verify-doc later to maint). + + * Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for + testing. + (merge 416fda6 fc/makefile later to maint). + + * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an + editor. + (merge 2520677 rs/commit-m-no-edit later to maint). + + * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22" + incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be + rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead). + (merge 84cf246 jc/strbuf-branchname-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when + another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends. + (merge aac3857 mk/combine-diff-context-horizon-fix later to maint). + + * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did + not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B + was the bottom of the range being specified. + (merge a765499 kb/ancestry-path-threedots later to maint). + + * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of + bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. + (merge 6c642a8 fc/macos-x-clipped-write later to maint). + + * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with + their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. + (merge be4c828 da/darwin later to maint). + + * "git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote + over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style. This case is now + detected and clones from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz". + (merge 6000334 nd/clone-local-with-colon later to maint). + + * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we + used to complain and die. Loosen the check. + (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint). + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error + checks to lose data at the remote side. + (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint). + + * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does + not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork + from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) + did not work correctly. + (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint). + + * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into + "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been + updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. + (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint). |