[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt

GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.3.1
--------------------

 * A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by
   casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
   and aborted compilation.

 * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.

 * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
   conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.

 * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
   merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
   gracefully.  It should produce the file itself, but instead
   produced an empty result.

 * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.

 * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".

 * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
   create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
   $(bindir)/git.

 * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
   in a bare repository.

 * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
   match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful.  We
   silently make it a no-op now.

 * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
   the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
   both halves are marked to be used.

 * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
   from a directory with some files in it.

 * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
   created by an ancient git.

 * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
   configuration was set.

 * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate.  The command also had
   subtle bugs with its -w option.

 * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.

 * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
   efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
   making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.

 * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.

Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
and documentation are included as well.
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e57cb015 JH	1	GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes
	2	==========================
	3
	4	Fixes since v1.6.3.1
	5	--------------------
	6
	7	* A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by
	8	casting the (char ) pointer to (int ); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
	9	and aborted compilation.
	10
e57cb015 JH	11	* Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.
	12
	13	* The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
	14	conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.
	15
40bad52d JH	16	* The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
	17	merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
	18	gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead
	19	produced an empty result.
	20
e57cb015 JH	21	* GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.
e57cb015 JH	22
40bad52d JH	23	* OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".
	24
	25	* With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
	26	create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
	27	$(bindir)/git.
	28
	29	* command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
	30	in a bare repository.
	31
e57cb015 JH	32	* "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
	33	match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We
	34	silently make it a no-op now.
	35
40bad52d JH	36	* "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
	37	the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
	38	both halves are marked to be used.
	39
6c7f58d6 JH	40	* "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
	41	from a directory with some files in it.
	42
40bad52d JH	43	* "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
	44	created by an ancient git.
	45
e57cb015 JH	46	* "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
	47	configuration was set.
	48
6c7f58d6 JH	49	* "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had
6c7f58d6 JH	50	subtle bugs with its -w option.
e57cb015	51
40bad52d	52	* http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
e57cb015 JH	53
	54	* "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
	55	efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
	56	making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.
	57
40bad52d JH	58	* "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.
40bad52d JH	59
e57cb015 JH	60	Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
e57cb015 JH	61	and documentation are included as well.