[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.6.2.4.txt

GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.2.3
--------------------

* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong
  value.

* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
  during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.

* "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for
  the remaining paths.  You had to say "d" and then ^C.

* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
  the named path; it now does.

* "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.

* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via
  the --template= option.

* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
  deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
  individual paths correctly.  This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
  "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
  and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).

* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
  a criss-cross merge situation.

Many small documentation updates are included as well.

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe maint)
O=v1.6.2.3-38-g318b847
git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint
Commit	Line	Data
67daebfd JH	1	GIT v1.6.2.4 Release Notes
	2	==========================
	3
	4	Fixes since v1.6.2.3
	5	--------------------
	6
	7	* The configuration parser had a buffer overflow while parsing an overlong
	8	value.
	9
1f9b620f JH	10	* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
	11	during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.
	12
	13	* "git-add -p" lacked a way to say "q"uit to refuse staging any hunks for
	14	the remaining paths. You had to say "d" and then ^C.
	15
67daebfd JH	16	* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
	17	the named path; it now does.
	18
1f9b620f JH	19	* "git-fast-export" choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
1f9b620f JH	20
67daebfd JH	21	* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via
	22	the --template= option.
	23
	24	* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
	25	deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
	26	individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
	27	"abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
	28	and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
	29
	30	* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
	31	a criss-cross merge situation.
	32
	33	Many small documentation updates are included as well.
	34
	35	---
	36	exec >/var/tmp/1
	37	echo O=$(git describe maint)
1f9b620f	38	O=v1.6.2.3-38-g318b847
67daebfd	39	git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint