Update draft release notes to 1.8.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2013-02-10 20:47:28 -08:00
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@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
* The completion script (in contrib/completion) used to let the
default completer to suggest pathnames, which gave too many
irrelevant choices (e.g. "git add" would not want to add an
unmodified path). It learnt to use a more git-aware logic to
enumerate only relevant ones.
* 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.
@ -248,12 +254,22 @@ details).
was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
* The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes
back from the server side to make sure that the request is being
handled properly.
(merge 3443db5 sp/smart-http-content-type-check later to maint).
* "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines.
* "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity
value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a
bogus value.
(merge afcb6ac jk/apply-similaritly-parsing later to maint).
* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
@ -279,6 +295,11 @@ details).
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
* We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input,
resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing
the "--raw --cc" output.
(merge edbc00e jc/combine-diff-many-parents later to maint).
* "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
@ -377,6 +398,10 @@ details).
unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
distros.
* The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated
config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir.
(merge fc1c541 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint).
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.