From 85318f521f6c0b9843d6da12abf67f2de7608431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:10:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.8.4 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 69ab64efae..10699fa226 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto". + * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start + a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others). + ### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration ### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override ### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). @@ -154,6 +157,15 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by + programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in + v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks. + (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint). + + * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a + path whose name is not in ASCII. + (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint). + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath. (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint). -- 2.11.4.GIT