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1 Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
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4 Updates since v1.8.3
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7 Foreign interface
9 * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
10 maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
13 UI, Workflows & Features
15 * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
16 more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
18 * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options
19 of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and
20 --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp.
21 "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing
22 function for expiry dates.
25 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
27 * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become
28 crowded, has been optimized.
30 * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat
31 inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic
32 to summarize the results looked at a wrong place.
34 * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
35 squelched.
37 * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated,
38 correcting corner case bugs.
41 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
44 Fixes since v1.8.3
45 ------------------
47 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
48 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
49 details).
51 * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
52 used to complain and die. Loosen the check.
53 (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint).
55 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error
56 checks to lose data at the remote side.
57 (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint).
59 * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does
60 not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork
61 from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)
62 did not work correctly.
63 (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint).
65 * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into
66 "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been
67 updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account.
68 (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint).