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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index e45788ef3e..b626a9a059 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of the logged-in user has been added. + * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to + allow it to replay a commit without any log message. + + * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an + external command to decline service based on the client address, + repository path, etc. + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare temporary copy of the working tree when available. @@ -43,6 +50,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in monospace. + * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file + descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and + getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. + + * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that + reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -53,6 +67,37 @@ 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). + * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while + being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the + documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a + new code for "all other errors". + (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint). + + * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a + non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from + running. (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to + maint). + + * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It + asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it + guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt, + tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No, + please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most + certainly not what the user meant. + (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint). + + * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts + unlike other mergy operations. + (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint). + + * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree + that has local changes. + (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint). + + * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, + breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. + (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint). + * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint). |