From 2808f6abc238ab038020681d43eaec7c0335efaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:47:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Start preparing for 1.8.0.1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RelNotes | 2 +- 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6c487c35e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.0 +------------------ + + * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on + variable names that was not checked consistently. + + * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed + "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a + BEL output. + + * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing + with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle + it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. + + * "git log -F -E --grep=''" failed to use the given + pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the + string literally. + + * "git grep -e pattern " asked the attribute system to read + ":.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was + nonsense. + + * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git + branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM + instead. + + * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch" + to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated + spelling snuck in to a few places since then. + + * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find + the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition + does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. + + * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the + repository-layout docs. + + * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout + value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http + transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. + A workaround has been added for this. + +Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes index 2484b38bbb..ca734fb888 120000 --- a/RelNotes +++ b/RelNotes @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt \ No newline at end of file +Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.1.txt \ No newline at end of file -- 2.11.4.GIT