Sixth batch for 1.8.1

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

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
index 107e5f3d50f1b7e0380ffe815f2ce98e3df4208e..00d728de1682da713d241ec0a80e00a905763b71 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt
@@ -32,16 +32,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
    workaround has been removed in this release.
 
    The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
    workaround has been removed in this release.
 

+ * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
+   format are now formatted in HTML as well.
+

  * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
    give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
    override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
 
  * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
    give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
    override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
 

- * "git format-patch" leraned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
+ * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give

    notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
 
  * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
    configuration set to "perl".
 
    notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
 
  * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
    configuration set to "perl".
 

+ * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object>, instead of only
+   accepting full hex object name.
+

  * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working
    tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it.  Because
    recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository
  * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working
    tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it.  Because
    recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository


@@ -70,6 +76,8 @@ Foreign Interface
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 

+ * Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now.
+

  * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from
    "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side
    of the connection) to list what refs are available in the
  * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from
    "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side
    of the connection) to list what refs are available in the


@@ -78,6 +86,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
  * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has
    been optimized.
 
  * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has
    been optimized.
 

+ * Use preloadindex in "git diff-index" and "git update-index", which
+   has a nice speedup on systems with slow stat calls (and even on
+   Linux).
+

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


@@ -132,11 +144,11 @@ details).
    (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
 
  * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
    (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
 
  * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the

-   From: line in the output from format-patch has been corrected.
+   From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.

    (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint).
 
  * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
    (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint).
 
  * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout

-   value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http
+   value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http

    transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
    A workaround has been added for this.
    (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).
    transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
    A workaround has been added for this.
    (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).


@@ -149,3 +161,27 @@ details).
  * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
    for changes.
    (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint).
  * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
    for changes.
    (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint).

+
+ * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase
+   (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended
+   configuration, but the clients used to fail to authenticate with
+   such servers.
+   (merge 2e736fd jk/maint-http-half-auth-fetch later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans
+   across multiple lines.
+   (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint).
+
+ * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working.
+   (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint).
+
+ * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.
+   (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint).
+
+ * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
+   "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").
+   (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
+   "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.
+   (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).