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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
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@ -4,7 +4,15 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
Updates since v1.8.3
--------------------
Foreign interface
Foreign interfaces and ports.
* Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that
this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it
ahead.
* The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has
been updated to kick in not just when talking http/https but also
imap(s) and smtp.
* Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
@ -14,8 +22,28 @@ Foreign interface
does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do
--dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now.
* git-remote-hg/bzr (in contrib/) updates.
* git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate,
when https:// connection failed.
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
"refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order
is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just
like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same
name.
* "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
response was to stash them and re-run).
* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".
* "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
@ -57,6 +85,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other
codepaths) have been plugged.
* 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
@ -91,6 +122,22 @@ 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).
* "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
when used as a persistent CGI.
(merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint).
* The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly.
(merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint).
* "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that
renamed the $path being followed.
(merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint).
* When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we
did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''".
(merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint).
* "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.