From 4b0891ffe4ec3aef081cf48c5f9a747586076f7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 14:11:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] More topics for 2.8.4 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt index 6005548fd6..8d484b170a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt @@ -24,4 +24,32 @@ Fixes since v2.8.3 * Many 'linkgit:' references were broken, which are all fixed with this. + * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of + tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up + with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old + commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not + described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did + not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to + penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been + updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which + is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit + in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the + commit." + + * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command + executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests + that capture the standard error stream and check what the command + said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running + our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output + to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs + being tested intact. + + * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, + but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. + + * When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a + faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would + result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. + This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead. + Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.