From 2f19ada7f8a5bb768816cf7334f65ae0ab03c8a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:20:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.8.2 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index a1ebb96ea8..33f4ae3ebe 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme. + * Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to + be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the + concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git". + All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small + caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided. + * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these tools in server settings. @@ -273,6 +279,10 @@ details). try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed. (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint). + * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, + killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history. + (merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint). + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. @@ -285,6 +295,10 @@ details). * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that created new refs had a nasty race. + * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule + has been broken since v1.7.12. + (merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint). + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. @@ -303,6 +317,10 @@ details). commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit status of the hook. + * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch + dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message. + (merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint). + * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this @@ -342,6 +360,12 @@ details). * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. + * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy + versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which + unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient + distros. + (merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint). + * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an old version of the tutorial; removed. -- 2.11.4.GIT