From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:27:15 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.8.3 X-Git-Tag: v1.8.3-rc0~21 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/562af5b0b900539bd7ef481316834e500f571899 Update draft release notes to 1.8.3 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 15ad460b59..261f82654d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want to). + * "git log --format" specifier learned %C(auto) token that tells Git + to use color when interpolating %d (decoration), %h (short commit + object name), etc. for terminal output. + * "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect log file. @@ -162,6 +166,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Updates for building under msvc. + * A handful of issues in the code to traverse working tree to find + untracked and/or ignored files have been fixed, and the general + codepath involved in "status -u" and "clean" have been cleaned up + and optimized. + * The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a pack has been shrunk. @@ -209,6 +218,16 @@ 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). + * When receive-pack detects error in the pack header it received in + order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it + returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang + sideband thread. + (merge 49ecfa1 jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure later to maint). + + * Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked + files needs to be escaped with another '%'. + (merge 24b6132 fc/untracked-zsh-prompt later to maint). + * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an timestamp can always be found in it.