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Update draft release notes to 1.8.3

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2013-04-18 12:02:42 -07:00
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@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
UI, Workflows & Features UI, Workflows & Features
* The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
* The "--cover-letter" option to "git format-patch" can be turned on
(or off) by default with format.coverLetter configuration
variable. By setting it to 'auto', you can turn it on only for a
series with two or more patches.
* The bash completion support (in contrib/) learned that cherry-pick
takes a few more options than it already knew about.
* "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
list of commands are given with "-a". list of commands are given with "-a".
@ -119,6 +131,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Updates for building under msvc. * Updates for building under msvc.
* The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
pack has been shrunk.
* The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2) the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable. complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
@ -153,7 +168,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
conflicts have been applied. conflicts have been applied.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v1.8.2 Fixes since v1.8.2
@ -163,6 +178,15 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). details).
* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.
(merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint).
* "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to
"our" side in certain cases.
(merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint).
* Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null) * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do. the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and