| GIT v1.5.6.2 Release Notes | |
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| Futureproof | |
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| * "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and | |
| subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will | |
| start to make sometime in the future. | |
| Fixes since v1.5.6.1 | |
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| * "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in | |
| $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well. | |
| * "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was | |
| tagged with a lightweight tag. | |
| * "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status | |
| reliably. | |
| * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now | |
| it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking | |
| branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest | |
| pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set | |
| of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. | |
| * "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file", | |
| but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous. | |
| * "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another | |
| annotated tag was given to it. | |
| * Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a | |
| serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for | |
| moderately large import. | |
| * "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file | |
| unnecessarily. |