Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.2.txt

   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
  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
  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
  21  * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.
  22
  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
  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
  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
  40  * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
  41    from a directory with some files in it.
  42
  43  * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
  44    created by an ancient git.
  45
  46  * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
  47    configuration was set.
  48
  49  * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate.  The command also had
  50    subtle bugs with its -w option.
  51
  52  * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
  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
  58  * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.
  59
  60 Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
  61 and documentation are included as well.