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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-26 15:45:09 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-26 15:45:09 -0700
commitb75cdfaa882a00f2274e74b21c1a9927d184ed29 (patch)
tree18b323f367c31a11a169a6fa9a6d05603bad6024
parent2a407d7443b0ff2832f0bad0db0dd5b1858fde8d (diff)
downloadgit-b75cdfaa882a00f2274e74b21c1a9927d184ed29.tar.gz
Git 1.8.3-rc0v1.8.3-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt26
-rwxr-xr-xGIT-VERSION-GEN2
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index 261f82654d..6d25165884 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -29,13 +29,20 @@ run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the
current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different
from today's version in such a situation.
+In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so
+that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory
+and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this
+release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this
+behaviour is encouraged to use "git add --ignore-removal <path>" and
+get used to it.
+
Updates since v1.8.2
--------------------
Foreign interface
- * remote-hg helper (in contrib/) has been updated.
+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated.
UI, Workflows & Features
@@ -222,22 +229,18 @@ details).
order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang
sideband thread.
- (merge 49ecfa1 jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure later to maint).
* Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked
files needs to be escaped with another '%'.
- (merge 24b6132 fc/untracked-zsh-prompt later to maint).
* A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
timestamp can always be found in it.
- (merge de5abe9 jk/chopped-ident later to maint).
* When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
"git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said
there was a programming error to trigger the die handler
recursively.
- (merge 1ece66b jk/a-thread-only-dies-once later to maint).
* "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into input
buffer around as human readble object names. This was not a huge
@@ -258,33 +261,26 @@ details).
the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
error reporting code may write into them.
- (merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint).
* "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
- (merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint).
* "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
--diff-algorithm=algo".
- (merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint).
* The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
places.
- (merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint).
* "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
any message as its one of the prerequistes.
- (merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint).
* "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
option.
- (merge 61690bf sr/log-SG-no-textconv later to maint).
* 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
@@ -292,7 +288,6 @@ details).
notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears
in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags.
- (merge a38d3d7 jc/merge-tag-object later to maint).
* Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
@@ -304,19 +299,15 @@ details).
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
- (merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint).
* "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support
"--option=value" form.
- (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).
* "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute
delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
- (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
* "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
of mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers.
- (merge 8f82aad nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes later to maint).
* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
@@ -326,7 +317,6 @@ details).
correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
* Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
- (merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).
* "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 6722e621d1..293d0b9fa4 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.8.2.GIT
+DEF_VER=v1.8.3-rc0
LF='
'