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 5031abfe4a7bed4c785ba62245dd9e0dbc91fed7..7799cec1dddbdd24121885360f77c88c8b97a746 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@ mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is
 important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec)
 updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start
 training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean
 important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec)
 updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start
 training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean

-it before Git 2.0 comes.
+it before Git 2.0 comes.  A warning is issued when these commands are
+run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the
+current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different
+from today's version in such a situation.

 
 
 Updates since v1.8.2
 
 
 Updates since v1.8.2


@@ -32,6 +35,17 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 

+ * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
+   integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
+   which defaults to blue).
+
+ * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to
+   show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick $blob" and "git cherry-pick $tree" are nonsense,
+   and a more readable error message e.g. "can't cherry-pick a tree"
+   is given (we used to say "expected exactly one commit").
+

  * 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 "--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).


@@ -178,6 +192,18 @@ 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).
 

+ * When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
+   "git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said
+   there was a programming error to trigger the die handler
+   recursively.
+   (merge 1ece66b jk/a-thread-only-dies-once later to maint).
+
+ * "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into input
+   buffer around as human readble object names.  This was not a huge
+   problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
+   error output.
+   (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint).
+

  * 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.
  * 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.