| Git v1.8.4 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v1.8.3 |
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| Foreign interface |
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| * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and |
| maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work |
| more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. |
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| * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options |
| of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and |
| --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. |
| "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing |
| function for expiry dates. |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. |
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| * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become |
| crowded, has been optimized. |
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| * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat |
| inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic |
| to summarize the results looked at a wrong place. |
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| * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been |
| squelched. |
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| * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated, |
| correcting corner case bugs. |
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| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
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| Fixes since v1.8.3 |
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| 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). |
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| * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we |
| used to complain and die. Loosen the check. |
| (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint). |
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| * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error |
| checks to lose data at the remote side. |
| (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint). |
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| * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does |
| not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork |
| from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) |
| did not work correctly. |
| (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint). |
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| * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into |
| "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been |
| updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. |
| (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint). |