Second wave of topics toward 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 23bd0c45bba0ffebf91d8c006645ea315745919b..54b05db9d0b9d26b19892510581050e5c8c0a0de 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system.
 
 
  * "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system.
 

+ * There was no Porcelain way to say "I no longer am interested in
+   this submodule", once you express your interest in a submodule with
+   "submodule init".  "submodule deinit" is the way to do so.
+
+ * "git pull --rebase" learned to pass "-v/-q" options to underlying
+   "git rebase".
+
+ * The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant
+   annotated tags when pushing branches out.
+

 
 Foreign Interface
 
 
 Foreign Interface
 


@@ -76,35 +86,76 @@ 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).
 

+ * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
+   correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
+   (merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint).
+
+ * Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
+   (merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).
+
+ * "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
+   instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
+   (merge f612a67 lf/setup-prefix-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
+   creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
+   (merge 3ae851e ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4
+   client was not its real path.
+   (merge bbd8486 pw/p4-symlinked-root later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
+   of an empty tree.  It would be more intuitive to give an empty
+   archive back in such a case.
+   (merge bd54cf1 jk/empty-archive later to maint).
+
+ * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
+   it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
+   the middle of it.
+   (merge 6cd3c05 ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time later to maint).
+
+ * An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
+   it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
+   (merge 2cd83d1 jk/alias-in-bare later to maint).
+
+ * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
+   correct objects.
+   (merge e8e92e0 jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix later to maint).
+
+ * The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
+   files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
+   common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
+   (merge b174eb4 ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap later to maint).
+
+ * The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
+   "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
+   base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
+   to those that match the given pattern.
+   (merge 46e1d6e jc/describe later to maint).
+

  * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
    command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
    (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint).
 
  * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
    was described poorly.
  * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
    command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
    (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint).
 
  * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
    was described poorly.

-   (merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint).

 
  * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
 
  * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.

-   (merge 0414acc wk/doc-pre-rebase later to maint).

 
  * The v4 index format was not documented.
 
  * The v4 index format was not documented.

-   (merge 647d879 nd/doc-index-format later to maint).

 
  * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
    pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.
 
  * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
    pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.

-   (merge 5229149 gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern later to maint).

 
  * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in
    their system header (e.g. z/OS).
 
  * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in
    their system header (e.g. z/OS).

-   (merge 3b130ade dm/ni-maxhost-may-be-missing later to maint).

 
  * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
    documentation.
 
  * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
    documentation.

-   (merge 21b6e4f tk/doc-filter-branch later to maint).

 
  * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a
    bundle that does not have any prerequisites.
 
  * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a
    bundle that does not have any prerequisites.

-   (merge a02ffe0 lf/bundle-verify-list-prereqs later to maint).

 
  * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
    to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
 
  * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
    to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by