From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 21:40:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.8.3 X-Git-Tag: v1.8.3-rc0~88 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/c17b651f1919a43f458f909d05c92d5f099ccc8b 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 a05c70fe1d..ca76a2be58 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 UI, Workflows & Features + * A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow + is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the + "origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the + branch.*.remote) configuration variables. + + * "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a + revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect + session. + + * The handing by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms + of errorneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved. + * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it. An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by @@ -101,6 +113,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Updates for building under msvc. + * The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for + shared repositories have been simplified. + * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table repeatedly growing and rehashing. @@ -135,6 +150,11 @@ 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 used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch" + failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the + final clean-up procedure. + (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint). + * "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from "git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code