@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
44Updates since v1.8.3
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66
7- Foreign interfaces and ports.
7+ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
8+
9+ * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version.
810
911 * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the
1012 credential helper interface from Git.pm.
@@ -33,6 +35,10 @@ Foreign interfaces and ports.
3335
3436UI, Workflows & Features
3537
38+ * Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
39+ thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
40+ Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
41+
3642 * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
3743 directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
3844 "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order
@@ -88,6 +94,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
8894
8995Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
9096
97+ * Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code,
98+ matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few)
99+ have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would
100+ match foo/bar, foo/a/bar, foo/a/b/bar, etc.
101+
91102 * Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to
92103 its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so
93104 make a copy if you want to keep it").
@@ -139,6 +150,12 @@ details).
139150 unquoted strings).
140151 (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).
141152
153+ * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different
154+ contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit,
155+ apply, and merge) used to leak memory that held the array of index
156+ entries, which has been plugged.
157+ (merge a0fc4db rs/discard-index-discard-array later to maint).
158+
142159 * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
143160 request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
144161 when used as a persistent CGI.
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