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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-24 13:53:03 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-24 13:53:56 -0700
commit9832cb9d4dc969fbfacfd1f8940fcbdec18bb930 (patch)
tree9be9547b29e4d51876ddb18b73cebbc98b255bd4
parent76689ab83b65636a01dd34ecfb9c1382aa6e959a (diff)
Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
For now, comment out the description on two "git status" UI configuration, until the reverted topic can be resurrected. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index 097654672d..69ab64efae 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report
+ multiple paths that cannot be removed.
+
+ * "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits
+ to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins.
+
* Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
- * "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).
+### * "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).
* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
@@ -52,7 +58,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
- response was to stash them and re-run).
+ response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner
+ case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed.
* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".
@@ -147,6 +154,9 @@ 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).
+ * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
+ (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).
+
* Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
"A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part
needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes