| GIT v1.5.2.2 Release Notes | |
| ========================== | |
| Fixes since v1.5.2.1 | |
| -------------------- | |
| * Usability fix | |
| - git-gui is shipped with its updated blame interface. It is | |
| rumored that the older one was not just unusable but was | |
| active health hazard, but this one is actually pretty. | |
| Please see for yourself. | |
| * Bugfixes | |
| - "git checkout fubar" was utterly confused when there is a | |
| branch fubar and a tag fubar at the same time. It correctly | |
| checks out the branch fubar now. | |
| - "git clone /path/foo" to clone a local /path/foo.git | |
| repository left an incorrect configuration. | |
| - "git send-email" correctly unquotes RFC 2047 quoted names in | |
| the patch-email before using their values. | |
| - We did not accept number of seconds since epoch older than | |
| year 2000 as a valid timestamp. We now interpret positive | |
| integers more than 8 digits as such, which allows us to | |
| express timestamps more recent than March 1973. | |
| - git-cvsimport did not work when you have GIT_DIR to point | |
| your repository at a nonstandard location. | |
| - Some systems (notably, Solaris) lack hstrerror() to make | |
| h_errno human readable; prepare a replacement | |
| implementation. | |
| - .gitignore file listed git-core.spec but what we generate is | |
| git.spec, and nobody noticed for a long time. | |
| - "git-merge-recursive" does not try to run file level merge | |
| on binary files. | |
| - "git-branch --track" did not create tracking configuration | |
| correctly when the branch name had slash in it. | |
| - The email address of the user specified with user.email | |
| configuration was overriden by EMAIL environment variable. | |
| - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with | |
| nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs. | |
| - "git log -z" without any other request to generate diff still | |
| invoked the diff machinery, wasting cycles. | |
| * Documentation | |
| - Many updates to fix stale or missing documentation. | |
| - Although our documentation was primarily meant to be formatted | |
| with AsciiDoc7, formatting with AsciiDoc8 is supported better. |