@@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
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3333UI, Workflows & Features
3434
35+ * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
36+ a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it.
37+ An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
38+ issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
39+
40+ * "git status" suggests users to look into using--untracked=no option
41+ when it takes too long.
42+
43+ * "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
44+ ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
45+ server side supports this feature.
46+
47+ * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
48+ packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
49+
50+ * A new read-only credential helper (in contrib/) to interact with
51+ the .netrc/.authinfo files has been added.
52+
53+ * "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system.
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3655
3756Foreign Interface
@@ -42,6 +61,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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4362 * Updates for building under msvc.
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64+ * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
65+ hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
66+ repeatedly growing and rehashing.
67+
4568
4669Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -53,6 +76,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
5376track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
5477details).
5578
79+ * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
80+ command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
81+ (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint).
82+
5683 * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
5784 was described poorly.
5885 (merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint).
@@ -84,3 +111,52 @@ details).
84111 CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
85112 in-tree users use.
86113 (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint).
114+
115+ * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
116+
117+ * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an
118+ informational message when the translated version of it was too
119+ long.
120+ (merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint).
121+
122+ * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
123+ $msg already ended with one.
124+ (merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint).
125+
126+ * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
127+ Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
128+ sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
129+ (merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint).
130+
131+ * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
132+ out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
133+ (merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint).
134+
135+ * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
136+ parameters and issue errors in many cases.
137+ (merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint).
138+
139+ * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
140+ or en/US locale.
141+ (merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint).
142+
143+ * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
144+ most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
145+ user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
146+ spellings of UTF-8.
147+ (merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint).
148+
149+ * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
150+ size of the file.
151+ (merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint).
152+
153+ * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
154+ filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
155+ sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
156+ numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
157+ alphabetical order.
158+ (merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint).
159+
160+ * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
161+ acccumulate the prefix paths.
162+ (merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint).
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