Update draft release notes to 1.9

gitster · gitster · commit b10cd577d806 · 2013-12-17T14:05:50.000-08:00
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as
+   if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in
+   Gerrit).
+
  * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a few formatting directives;
    e.g. "%(color:red)%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(refname:short) %(subject)".
 
@@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
 
+ * The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed;
+   use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code.
+
+ * A few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix string comparison
+   functions have been unified to starts_with() and ends_with().
+
  * The new PERLLIB_EXTRA makefile variable can be used to specify
    additional directories Perl modules (e.g. the ones necessary to run
    git-svn) are installed on the platform when building.
@@ -131,6 +141,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance
 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
 for details).
 
+ * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
+   out, but it didn't.
+   (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint).
+
+ * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been
+   retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that
+   corrupts system error messages in non-C locales.
+
+ * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
+   layer in "git send-email".
+   (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
+   editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
+   control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
+   first modified path was a submodule.
+   (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored.
+   Diagnose it as an error.
+   (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint).
+
+ * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
+   parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
+   to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.
+   (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint).
+
  * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
    command line parser.
    (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint).
