Update draft release notes to 1.8.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2013-05-01 15:32:24 -07:00
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@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Foreign interface
UI, Workflows & Features
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
replayed during a "git rebase" session.
* "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
which defaults to blue).
@ -158,9 +162,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
in the working tree.
same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working
tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged
manually.
* There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
@ -224,6 +228,15 @@ 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).
* Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing
up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the
callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it.
(merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint).
* Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
(merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint).
* When receive-pack detects an 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 hung