@@ -33,12 +33,29 @@ from today's version in such a situation.
3333Updates since v1.8.2
3434--------------------
3535
36+ Foreign interface
37+
38+ * remote-hg helper (in contrib/) has been updated.
39+
40+
3641UI, Workflows & Features
3742
3843 * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
3944 integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
4045 which defaults to blue).
4146
47+ * In a sparsely populated working tree, "git checkout <pathspec>" no
48+ longer unmarks paths that match the given pathspec that were
49+ originally ignored with "--sparse" (use --ignore-skip-worktree-bits
50+ option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
51+ to).
52+
53+ * "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
54+ log file.
55+
56+ * "git clone --reference" can now refer to a gitfile "textual symlink"
57+ that points at the real location of the repository.
58+
4259 * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to
4360 show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
4461
@@ -192,6 +209,11 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
192209track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
193210details).
194211
212+ * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
213+ crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
214+ timestamp can always be found in it.
215+ (merge de5abe9 jk/chopped-ident later to maint).
216+
195217 * When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
196218 "git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said
197219 there was a programming error to trigger the die handler
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