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 bcbcf1569651d5aff9d0af738db7b912285954dd..516d929056551e95e4bd62eaa9b496c00c919fdf 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
    server side supports this feature.
 
    ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
    server side supports this feature.
 

+ * Output from "git log --graph" works better with submodule log
+   output now.
+

  * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
    packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
 
  * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
    packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
 


@@ -160,6 +163,28 @@ 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).
 

+ * 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
+   error reporting code may write into them.
+   (merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint).
+
+ * "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
+   ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
+   (merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
+   --diff-algorithm=algo".
+   (merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint).
+
+ * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
+   places.
+   (merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
+   any message as its one of the prerequistes.
+   (merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint).
+

  * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
    there was no way to disable this.  Make it honor --no-textconv
    option.
  * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
    there was no way to disable this.  Make it honor --no-textconv
    option.