| Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v1.8.4 |
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| * Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot |
| grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and |
| completion code started to use recently. The completion and |
| prompt scripts have been adjusted to work better with these old |
| versions of bash. |
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| * "git rebase -i" had a minor bug (the same could be in other |
| programs, as the root cause is pretty generic) where the code |
| feeds a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and expects it |
| to come out literally. |
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| * "submodule.<name>.path" variable mistakenly set to the empty |
| "true" caused the configuration parser to segfault. |
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| * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange, |
| because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that |
| touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths |
| outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has |
| changed. |
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| * The auto-tag-following code in "git fetch" tries to reuse the |
| same transport twice when the serving end does not cooperate and |
| does not give tags that point to commits that are asked for as |
| part of the primary transfer. Unfortunately, Git-aware transport |
| helper interface is not designed to be used more than once, hence |
| this did not work over smart-http transfer. Fixed. |
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| * Send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a smaller but still |
| reasonably large chunks, which would improve the latency when the |
| operation needs to be killed and incidentally works around broken |
| 64-bit systems that cannot take a 2GB write or read in one go. |
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| * A ".mailmap" file that ends with an incomplete line, when read |
| from a blob, was not handled properly. |
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| * The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a |
| shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow |
| tags. |
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| * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros, |
| the configuration parser did not compile. |
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| Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation |
| updates, updates to the test suite, etc. |