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| 1 | +Git v1.8.2 Release Notes |
| 2 | +======================== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Backward compatibility notes |
| 5 | +---------------------------- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +In the upcoming major release (tentatively called 1.8.2), we will |
| 8 | +change the behavior of the "git push" command. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the |
| 11 | +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent |
| 12 | +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name |
| 13 | +over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the |
| 14 | +current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current |
| 15 | +branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user |
| 16 | +preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +Updates since v1.8.1 |
| 20 | +-------------------- |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +UI, Workflows & Features |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | + * |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Foreign Interface |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + * |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + * |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +Fixes since v1.8.1 |
| 38 | +------------------ |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.1 in the maintenance |
| 41 | +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for |
| 42 | +details). |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the |
| 45 | + real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused |
| 46 | + the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling. |
| 47 | + (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint). |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that |
| 50 | + broke on OpenBSD. |
| 51 | + (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | + * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. |
| 54 | + (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a |
| 57 | + platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you |
| 58 | + need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). |
| 59 | + (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing |
| 62 | + pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. |
| 63 | + (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and |
| 66 | + GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. |
| 67 | + (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the |
| 70 | + code did not expect. |
| 71 | + (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint). |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | + * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the |
| 74 | + authentication is done by certificate identity. |
| 75 | + (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint). |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | + * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that |
| 78 | + created new refs had a nasty race. |
| 79 | + (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint). |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the |
| 82 | + index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. |
| 83 | + (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new |
| 86 | + activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely |
| 87 | + nothing in it early, which was not very useful. |
| 88 | + (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint). |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | + * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters |
| 91 | + whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed |
| 92 | + to add a newline after such a line. |
| 93 | + (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint). |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | + * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it |
| 96 | + around by explicitly setting it to the default value. |
| 97 | + (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). |
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