Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt

   1 Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes
   2 ==========================
   3
   4 Fixes since v1.8.2
   5 ------------------
   6
   7  * An earlier change to the attribute system introduced at v1.8.1.2 by
   8    mistake stopped a pattern "dir" (without trailing slash) from
   9    matching a directory "dir" (it only wanted to allow pattern "dir/"
  10    to also match).
  11
  12  * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
  13    or en/US locale.
  14
  15  * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
  16    $msg already ended with one.
  17
  18  * The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
  19    "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
  20    base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
  21    to those that match the given pattern.
  22
  23  * An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
  24    it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
  25
  26  * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
  27    it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
  28    the middle of it.
  29
  30  * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
  31    of an empty tree.  It would be more intuitive to give an empty
  32    archive back in such a case.
  33
  34  * "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
  35    creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
  36
  37  * "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
  38    instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
  39
  40  * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
  41    correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
  42
  43  * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
  44    platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
  45    hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
  46
  47  * The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
  48    files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
  49    common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
  50
  51  * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
  52    accumulate the prefix paths.
  53
  54  * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
  55    filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
  56    sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
  57    numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
  58    alphabetical order.
  59
  60  * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
  61    size of the file.
  62
  63  * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
  64    most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
  65    user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
  66    spellings of UTF-8.
  67
  68  * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
  69    parameters and issue errors in many cases.
  70
  71  * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
  72
  73  * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
  74    out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
  75
  76  * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
  77    Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
  78    sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
  79
  80  * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an
  81    informational message when the translated version of it was too
  82    long.
  83
  84  * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
  85    command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
  86
  87  * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
  88    correct objects.
  89
  90  * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
  91    was described poorly.
  92
  93  * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
  94
  95  * The v4 index format was not documented.
  96
  97  * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
  98    pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.
  99
 100  * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in
 101    their system header (e.g. z/OS).
 102
 103  * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
 104    documentation.
 105
 106  * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a
 107    bundle that does not have any prerequisites.
 108
 109  * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
 110    to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
 111    CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
 112    in-tree users use.
 113
 114  * "git merge-tree" had a typo in the logic to detect d/f conflicts,
 115    which caused it to segfault in some cases.