Update draft release notes to 1.8.3

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2013-04-15 12:45:15 -07:00
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@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
server side supports this feature. server side supports this feature.
* Output from "git log --graph" works better with submodule log
output now.
* "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
packfiles and other garbage in the object store. packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
@ -160,6 +163,28 @@ 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).
* Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
error reporting code may write into them.
(merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint).
* "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
(merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint).
* "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
--diff-algorithm=algo".
(merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint).
* The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
places.
(merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint).
* "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
any message as its one of the prerequistes.
(merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint).
* "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
option. option.