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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-23 18:27:15 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-23 18:27:15 (GMT)
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Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
to).
+ * "git log --format" specifier learned %C(auto) token that tells Git
+ to use color when interpolating %d (decoration), %h (short commit
+ object name), etc. for terminal output.
+
* "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
log file.
@@ -162,6 +166,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Updates for building under msvc.
+ * A handful of issues in the code to traverse working tree to find
+ untracked and/or ignored files have been fixed, and the general
+ codepath involved in "status -u" and "clean" have been cleaned up
+ and optimized.
+
* The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
pack has been shrunk.
@@ -209,6 +218,16 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * When receive-pack detects error in the pack header it received in
+ order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
+ returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang
+ sideband thread.
+ (merge 49ecfa1 jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure later to maint).
+
+ * Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked
+ files needs to be escaped with another '%'.
+ (merge 24b6132 fc/untracked-zsh-prompt later to maint).
+
* A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
timestamp can always be found in it.