| Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes | |
| ========================== | |
| Fixes since v1.8.5.3 | |
| -------------------- | |
| * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. | |
| Diagnose it as an error. | |
| * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are | |
| parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks | |
| to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. | |
| * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket | |
| layer in "git send-email". | |
| * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before | |
| editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned | |
| control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the | |
| first modified path was a submodule. | |
| * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error | |
| out, but it didn't. | |
| * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for | |
| keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could | |
| cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a | |
| rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt | |
| to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to | |
| fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. | |
| * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag | |
| nicely. | |
| * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree | |
| used to emit an error. | |
| * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of | |
| parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but | |
| there was. | |
| * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote | |
| the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. | |
| * The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option | |
| because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". | |
| Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. |