| Git v1.7.9.1 Release Notes | |
| ========================== | |
| Fixes since v1.7.9 | |
| ------------------ | |
| * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in | |
| command names suffixed with unnecessary strings. | |
| * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton} | |
| wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that | |
| broke Solaris build. | |
| * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed. | |
| * Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running | |
| to completion even when the top-level process was killed. | |
| * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified | |
| submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch | |
| prepared by for the user to edit. | |
| * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed. | |
| * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not | |
| make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits | |
| and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made | |
| "-l/-L" to miscount the hits. | |
| * "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent | |
| chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the | |
| specified paths came. | |
| * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option. | |
| * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the | |
| required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common | |
| operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so | |
| it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag. | |
| * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version | |
| to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently" | |
| case. | |
| * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet. | |
| * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not | |
| report an error correctly to the end user. | |
| * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient | |
| timestamps near year 1970. | |
| * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the | |
| name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older | |
| clients. | |
| * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored | |
| in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the | |
| superproject and already initialized. | |
| * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected. | |
| Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. |