| GIT v1.5.4.6 Release Notes | 
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 | I personally do not think there is any reason anybody should want to | 
 | run v1.5.4.X series these days, because 'master' version is always | 
 | more stable than any tagged released version of git. | 
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 | This is primarily to futureproof "git-shell" to accept 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. | 
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 | Fixes since v1.5.4.5 | 
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 |  * Command line option "-n" to "git-repack" was not correctly parsed. | 
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 |  * Error messages from "git-apply" when the patchfile cannot be opened | 
 |    have been improved. | 
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 |  * Error messages from "git-bisect" when given nonsense revisions have | 
 |    been improved. | 
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 |  * reflog syntax that uses time e.g. "HEAD@{10 seconds ago}:path" did not | 
 |    stop parsing at the closing "}". | 
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 |  * "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name ^master^2" printed solitary "^", | 
 |    but it should print nothing. | 
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 |  * "git apply" did not enforce "match at the beginning" correctly. | 
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 |  * a path specification "a/b" in .gitattributes file should not match | 
 |    "sub/a/b", but it did. | 
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 |  * "git log --date-order --topo-order" did not override the earlier | 
 |    date-order with topo-order as expected. | 
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 |  * "git fast-export" did not export octopus merges correctly. | 
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 |  * "git archive --prefix=$path/" mishandled gitattributes. | 
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 | As usual, it also comes with many documentation fixes and clarifications. | 
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