Update draft release notes to 1.8.4

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

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index eca2677feaba93ef8dddcba2de7ae513b1d56480..6dda09560e8316fc8c0ce66f5cd86a29fddcb592 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Foreign interface
  * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
    maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
 
  * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
    maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
 

+ * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to
+   update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side
+   does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do
+   --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now.

 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 


@@ -67,6 +71,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
    inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic
    to summarize the results looked at a wrong place.
 
    inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic
    to summarize the results looked at a wrong place.
 

+ * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure
+   that the history behind refs are complete.
+

  * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
    squelched.
 
  * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
    squelched.
 


@@ -84,6 +91,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 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).
 

+ * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the
+   end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
+   cases.
+   (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so
+   it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push
+   out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the
+   command was started.
+   (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint).
+
+ * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch
+   being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the
+   plain vanilla "rebase".
+   (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint).
+

  * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
    broken in the update to v1.8.3.
    (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).
  * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
    broken in the update to v1.8.3.
    (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).