Update draft release notes to 1.8.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2013-01-09 10:19:49 -08:00
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@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated
anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch.
* "git format-patch" now detects more cases in which a whole branch
is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when
asked to write a cover letter for the series.
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
@ -57,6 +61,8 @@ Foreign Interface
* "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of
the remote helper interface.
* A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
@ -85,17 +91,11 @@ details).
the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
(merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint).
* t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
broke on OpenBSD.
(merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint).
* t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues.
(merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint).
* t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a
platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you
need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
(merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint).
* When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
not exist there" and moving on.
(merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint).
* The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ details).
exclude mechanism does.
(merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint).
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines.
(merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint).
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
(merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
@ -132,11 +136,21 @@ details).
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
(merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.
(merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint).
* "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
(merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint).
* "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to
"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
mistake.
(merge 0e901d2 os/gitweb-highlight-uncaptured later to maint).
* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
to add a newline after such a line.
@ -145,3 +159,31 @@ details).
* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
(merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint).
* Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when
PYTHON_PATH changed.
(cherry-pick 96a4647fca54031974cd6ad1 later to maint).
* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
(merge 1226504 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint).
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
(merge 0a85441 ta/remove-stale-translated-tut later to maint).
* t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
broke on OpenBSD.
(merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint).
* t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues.
(merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint).
* t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a
platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you
need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
(merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint).
* t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct.
(merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint).
(merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint).