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Update draft release notes to 1.8.2.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 12 years ago
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@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ Git v1.8.2.2 Release Notes @@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ Git v1.8.2.2 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.8.2.1
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* "git diff --diff-algorithm=algo" was understood by the command line
parser, but "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" was not.

* "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
option.

* "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
"git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code
notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears
in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags.

* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can take more than one commit
on the command line these days, but it was not mentioned on the usage
text.

* Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and

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