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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-08-29 15:00:30 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-08-29 15:00:30 -0700
commit16d26b168b371b2f4f86b1adb61470c6b08b27b9 (patch)
tree707d229f6577a8eafbde4522e8acaea1659497f5 /Documentation
parent183154bac897e77a1b941362985d8bc886a2ebec (diff)
downloadgit-16d26b168b371b2f4f86b1adb61470c6b08b27b9.tar.gz
Latter half of the second batch for 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.12
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
+ the logged-in user has been added.
+
* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
temporary copy of the working tree when available.
@@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ Foreign Interface
* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
-
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
@@ -51,6 +53,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details).
+ * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
+ (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
+ example.
+ (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
+ submodule was misspelt.
+ (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).
+
+ * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
+ did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
+ fixed not to do so.
+
+ * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
+ inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
+ (merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint).
+
+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
+ rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
+ start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
+ (merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint).
+
+ * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
+ files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
+ (merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint).
* When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to