Update draft release notes to 1.8.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2013-04-23 11:27:15 -07:00
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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.