Update draft release notes to 1.8.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index 516d929056551e95e4bd62eaa9b496c00c919fdf..5031abfe4a7bed4c785ba62245dd9e0dbc91fed7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 

+ * The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
+   off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
+   can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
+
+ * The "--cover-letter" option to "git format-patch" can be turned on
+   (or off) by default with format.coverLetter configuration
+   variable. By setting it to 'auto', you can turn it on only for a
+   series with two or more patches.
+
+ * The bash completion support (in contrib/) learned that cherry-pick
+   takes a few more options than it already knew about.
+

  * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
    list of commands are given with "-a".
 
  * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
    list of commands are given with "-a".
 


@@ -119,6 +131,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
  * Updates for building under msvc.
 
 
  * Updates for building under msvc.
 

+ * The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
+   pack has been shrunk.
+

  * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
    the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
    complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
  * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
    the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
    complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.


@@ -153,7 +168,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
    conflicts have been applied.
 
 
    conflicts have been applied.
 
 

-Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

 
 
 Fixes since v1.8.2
 
 
 Fixes since v1.8.2


@@ -163,6 +178,15 @@ 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).
 
 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 

+ * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
+   GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
+   like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.
+   (merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to
+   "our" side in certain cases.
+   (merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint).
+

  * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
    the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
    Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
  * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
    the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
    Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and