Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.2.txt

   1 GIT v1.5.2.2 Release Notes
   2 ==========================
   3
   4 Fixes since v1.5.2.1
   5 --------------------
   6
   7 * Usability fix
   8
   9   - git-gui is shipped with its updated blame interface.  It is
  10     rumored that the older one was not just unusable but was
  11     active health hazard, but this one is actually pretty.
  12     Please see for yourself.
  13
  14 * Bugfixes
  15
  16   - "git checkout fubar" was utterly confused when there is a
  17     branch fubar and a tag fubar at the same time.  It correctly
  18     checks out the branch fubar now.
  19
  20   - "git clone /path/foo" to clone a local /path/foo.git
  21     repository left an incorrect configuration.
  22
  23   - "git send-email" correctly unquotes RFC 2047 quoted names in
  24     the patch-email before using their values.
  25
  26   - We did not accept number of seconds since epoch older than
  27     year 2000 as a valid timestamp.  We now interpret positive
  28     integers more than 8 digits as such, which allows us to
  29     express timestamps more recent than March 1973.
  30
  31   - git-cvsimport did not work when you have GIT_DIR to point
  32     your repository at a nonstandard location.
  33
  34   - Some systems (notably, Solaris) lack hstrerror() to make
  35     h_errno human readable; prepare a replacement
  36     implementation.
  37
  38   - .gitignore file listed git-core.spec but what we generate is
  39     git.spec, and nobody noticed for a long time.
  40
  41   - "git-merge-recursive" does not try to run file level merge
  42     on binary files.
  43
  44   - "git-branch --track" did not create tracking configuration
  45     correctly when the branch name had slash in it.
  46
  47   - The email address of the user specified with user.email
  48     configuration was overridden by EMAIL environment variable.
  49
  50   - The tree parser did not warn about tree entries with
  51     nonsense file modes, and assumed they must be blobs.
  52
  53   - "git log -z" without any other request to generate diff still
  54     invoked the diff machinery, wasting cycles.
  55
  56 * Documentation
  57
  58   - Many updates to fix stale or missing documentation.
  59
  60   - Although our documentation was primarily meant to be formatted
  61     with AsciiDoc7, formatting with AsciiDoc8 is supported better.