@@ -4,7 +4,15 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
44Updates since v1.8.3
55--------------------
66
7- Foreign interface
7+ Foreign interfaces and ports.
8+
9+ * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that
10+ this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it
11+ ahead.
12+
13+ * The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has
14+ been updated to kick in not just when talking http/https but also
15+ imap(s) and smtp.
816
917 * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
1018 maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
@@ -14,8 +22,28 @@ Foreign interface
1422 does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do
1523 --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now.
1624
25+ * git-remote-hg/bzr (in contrib/) updates.
26+
27+ * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate,
28+ when https:// connection failed.
29+
30+
1731UI, Workflows & Features
1832
33+ * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
34+ directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
35+ "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order
36+ is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just
37+ like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same
38+ name.
39+
40+ * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
41+ changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
42+ response was to stash them and re-run).
43+
44+ * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
45+ e.g. "git log @".
46+
1947 * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
2048 more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
2149
@@ -57,6 +85,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
5785
5886Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
5987
88+ * Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other
89+ codepaths) have been plugged.
90+
6091 * The codepath to read from marks files in fast-import/export did not
6192 have to accept anything but 40-hex representation of the object
6293 name. Further, fast-export did not need full in-core object
@@ -91,6 +122,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
91122track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
92123details).
93124
125+ * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
126+ request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
127+ when used as a persistent CGI.
128+ (merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint).
129+
130+ * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly.
131+ (merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint).
132+
133+ * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that
134+ renamed the $path being followed.
135+ (merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint).
136+
137+ * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we
138+ did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''".
139+ (merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint).
140+
94141 * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the
95142 end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
96143 cases.
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