Update draft release notes to 1.8.4

maint
Junio C Hamano 2013-06-20 16:13:41 -07:00
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@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
Updates since v1.8.3
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Foreign interfaces and ports.
Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.

* Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version.

* MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the
credential helper interface from Git.pm.
@ -33,6 +35,10 @@ Foreign interfaces and ports.

UI, Workflows & Features

* Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".

* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
"refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order
@ -88,6 +94,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

* Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code,
matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few)
have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would
match foo/bar, foo/a/bar, foo/a/b/bar, etc.

* Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to
its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so
make a copy if you want to keep it").
@ -139,6 +150,12 @@ details).
unquoted strings).
(merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).

* Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different
contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit,
apply, and merge) used to leak memory that held the array of index
entries, which has been plugged.
(merge a0fc4db rs/discard-index-discard-array later to maint).

* "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
when used as a persistent CGI.