| Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes | |
| ========================== | |
| Fixes since v1.8.0 | |
| ------------------ | |
| * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on | |
| variable names that was not checked consistently. | |
| * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed | |
| "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a | |
| BEL output. | |
| * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing | |
| with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle | |
| it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. | |
| * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> | |
| pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the | |
| string literally. | |
| * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read | |
| "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was | |
| nonsense. | |
| * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git | |
| branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM | |
| instead. | |
| * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch" | |
| to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated | |
| spelling snuck in to a few places since then. | |
| * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find | |
| the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition | |
| does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. | |
| * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the | |
| repository-layout docs. | |
| * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout | |
| value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http | |
| transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. | |
| A workaround has been added for this. | |
| * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the | |
| From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. | |
| * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking | |
| for changes. | |
| * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a | |
| lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique" | |
| command line. | |
| * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. | |
| * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean | |
| "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). | |
| * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say | |
| "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. | |
| Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates. |