From de0977d528055bac8a3ae666652f16bf39363ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 15:32:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.8.3 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 0d70b3605c..b0cd887403 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Foreign interface UI, Workflows & Features + * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to + show how many changes there are in total and how many have been + replayed during a "git rebase" session. + * "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). @@ -158,9 +162,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the - same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it - tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy - in the working tree. + same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working + tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged + manually. * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while @@ -224,6 +228,15 @@ 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). + * Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing + up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the + callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it. + (merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint). + + * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous + command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors. + (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint). + * When receive-pack detects an 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 hung -- 2.11.4.GIT