From 4dac0679feaebbf6545daec14480cf6b94cb74ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:39:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Git 1.8.2-rc1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 22 +++++++++------------- GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index a287f24800..861ef026d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this. "git push $there tag v1.2.3" used to allow replacing a tag v1.2.3 that already exists in the repository $there, if the rewritten tag -you are pushing points at a commit that is a decendant of a commit +you are pushing points at a commit that is a descendant of a commit that the old tag v1.2.3 points at. This was found to be error prone and starting with this release, any attempt to update an existing ref under refs/tags/ hierarchy will fail, without "--force". When "git add -u" and "git add -A", that does not specify what paths to add on the command line, is run from inside a subdirectory, the -scope of the operation has always been limited to the subirectory. +scope of the operation has always been limited to the subdirectory. Many users found this counter-intuitive, given that "git commit -a" and other commands operate on the entire tree regardless of where you are. In this release, these commands give warning in such a case and @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features string "v$count-" to the names of its output files, and also automatically sets the subject prefix to "PATCH v$count". This allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different - names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages. + names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messages. * "git log" and friends can be told with --use-mailmap option to rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap @@ -295,7 +295,6 @@ details). * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes back from the server side to make sure that the request is being handled properly. - (merge 3443db5 sp/smart-http-content-type-check later to maint). * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). @@ -306,7 +305,6 @@ details). * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a bogus value. - (merge afcb6ac jk/apply-similaritly-parsing later to maint). * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. @@ -327,19 +325,16 @@ details). untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions and then reports the outcome more faithfully. - (merge f538a91 zk/clean-report-failure later to maint). * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. * "git cvsimport" mishandled timestamps at DST boundary. - (merge 48c9162 bw/get-tz-offset-perl later to maint). * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input, resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing the "--raw --cc" output. - (merge edbc00e jc/combine-diff-many-parents later to maint). * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was @@ -349,7 +344,6 @@ details). * "git log --all -p" that walked refs/notes/textconv/ ref can later try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed. - (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint). * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history. @@ -374,7 +368,6 @@ details). * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there options at the same time, which was nonsensical. - (merge 95b63f1 nd/clone-no-separate-git-dir-with-bare later to maint). * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions of Git. @@ -409,7 +402,6 @@ details). * "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers. - (merge 5748558 ab/gitweb-use-same-scheme 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 @@ -427,7 +419,7 @@ details). * "git push" was taught to refuse updating the branch that is currently checked out long time ago, but the user manual was left stale. - (merge d9be248 wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days later to maint). + (merge 50995ed wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days later to maint). * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it around by explicitly setting it to the default value. @@ -446,7 +438,11 @@ details). * The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir. - (merge fc1c541 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint). + (merge 55d9bf0 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint). + + * A change made on v1.8.1.x maintenance track had a nasty regression + to break the build when autoconf is used. + (merge 7f1b697 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint). * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an old version of the tutorial; removed. diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 4448c35bd0..7952039453 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.8.2-rc0 +DEF_VER=v1.8.2-rc1 LF=' '