Skip to content

Commit 9832cb9

Browse files
committed
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 <[email protected]>
1 parent 76689ab commit 9832cb9

File tree

1 file changed

+14
-4
lines changed

1 file changed

+14
-4
lines changed

Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt

Lines changed: 14 additions & 4 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
3535

3636
UI, Workflows & Features
3737

38+
* "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report
39+
multiple paths that cannot be removed.
40+
41+
* "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits
42+
to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins.
43+
3844
* Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
3945
thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
4046
Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
4147

42-
* "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
43-
variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
44-
with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
48+
### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
49+
### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
50+
### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
4551

4652
* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
4753
directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
@@ -52,7 +58,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
5258

5359
* "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
5460
changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
55-
response was to stash them and re-run).
61+
response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner
62+
case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed.
5663

5764
* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
5865
e.g. "git log @".
@@ -147,6 +154,9 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
147154
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
148155
details).
149156

157+
* "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
158+
(merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).
159+
150160
* Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
151161
"A U. Thor" <[email protected]>, where the human readable part
152162
needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)