| GIT v1.6.4.2 Release Notes | |
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| Fixes since v1.6.4.1 | |
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| * --date=relative output between 1 and 5 years ago rounded the number of | |
| years when saying X years Y months ago, instead of rounding it down. | |
| * "git add -p" did not handle changes in executable bits correctly | |
| (a regression around 1.6.3). | |
| * "git apply" did not honor GNU diff's convention to mark the creation/deletion | |
| event with UNIX epoch timestamp on missing side. | |
| * "git checkout" incorrectly removed files in a directory pointed by a | |
| symbolic link during a branch switch that replaces a directory with | |
| a symbolic link. | |
| * "git clean -d -f" happily descended into a subdirectory that is managed by a | |
| separate git repository. It now requires two -f options for safety. | |
| * "git fetch/push" over http transports had two rather grave bugs. | |
| * "git format-patch --cover-letter" did not prepare the cover letter file | |
| for use with non-ASCII strings when there are the series contributors with | |
| non-ASCII names. | |
| * "git pull origin branch" and "git fetch origin && git merge origin/branch" | |
| left different merge messages in the resulting commit. | |
| Other minor documentation updates are included. |