Git 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
index 468947c..ead568e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
@@ -42,8 +42,11 @@
Foreign interface
* remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have
- been updated; especially, the latter has been accelerated to help
- Emacs folks, whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
+ been updated; especially, the latter has been done in an
+ accelerated schedule (read: we may not have merged to this release
+ if we were following the usual "cook sufficiently in next before
+ unleashing it to the world" workflow) in order to help Emacs folks,
+ whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
UI, Workflows & Features
@@ -111,9 +114,10 @@
of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
- a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it.
- An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
- issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
+ a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An
+ explicit way has been added to issue custom messages to refuse an
+ access over the network to help the end users who connect to the
+ service expecting an interactive shell.
* In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
@@ -123,8 +127,8 @@
* "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option
when it takes too long.
- * "git status" shows a bit more information during a
- rebase/bisect session.
+ * "git status" shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect
+ session.
* "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
@@ -241,7 +245,6 @@
* Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
- (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint).
* When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in
order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
@@ -264,7 +267,6 @@
buffer around as human readable object names. This was not a huge
problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
error output.
- (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint).
* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walking clients,
@@ -309,11 +311,9 @@
* Fix a 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without a
trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
- (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
* "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
- (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
