From b72c6161f1f34985e4a13f8c4c9ba9e55b3d1496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:57:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update draft release notes to 1.8.4 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index ba36cc4587..2226abeffb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -76,9 +76,21 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate, when https:// connection failed. + * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) adds a command to allow previewing the + contents locally before pushing it out, when working with a + MediaWiki remote. + UI, Workflows & Features + * "git cat-file --batch-check=" is added, primarily to allow + on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot + smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be + reported. + + * "git rebase [-i]" used to leave just "rebase" as its reflog messages + for some operations. They have been reworded to be more informative. + * In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach", "submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update" @@ -268,6 +280,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message + did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters. + (merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint). + * Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port. This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given. -- 2.40.0