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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92de751 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +Git v1.8.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +In the upcoming major release (tentatively called 1.8.2), we will +change the behavior of the "git push" command. + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the +current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current +branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user +preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this. + + +Updates since v1.8.1 +-------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Initial ports to QNX and z/OS UNIX System Services have started. + + * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is + questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme. + + * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read + mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these + tools in server settings. + + * Color specifiers, e.g. "%C(blue)Hello%C(reset)", used in the + "--format=" option of "git log" and friends can be disabled when + the output is not sent to a terminal by prefixing them with + "auto,", e.g. "%C(auto,blue)Hello%C(auto,reset)". + + * Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do + not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings. + + * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec + with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match + the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the + real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated + anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch. + + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a + fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. + + * "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the + tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit + recorded in the superproject's gitlink). + + +Foreign Interface + + * "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of + the remote helper interface. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * "git fsck" has been taught to be pickier about entries in tree + objects that should not be there, e.g. ".", ".git", and "..". + + * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard + characters has been optimized further. + + * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml + quoting code from http-push codepath. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.1 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.1 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the + real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused + the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling. + (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint). + + * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that + broke on OpenBSD. + (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). + + * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. + (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). + + * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a + platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you + need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). + (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). + + * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they + attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn + launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that + signal and die. We ignore these signals now. + (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). + + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing + pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. + (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). + + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. + (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint). + + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and + GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. + (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). + + * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the + code did not expect. + (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint). + + * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the + authentication is done by certificate identity. + (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint). + + * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that + created new refs had a nasty race. + (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint). + + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the + index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. + (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). + + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new + activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely + nothing in it early, which was not very useful. + (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint). + + * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters + whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed + to add a newline after such a line. + (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint). + + * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it + around by explicitly setting it to the default value. + (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). |