1 Git v1.8.4.2 Release Notes
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7 * "git clone" gave some progress messages to the standard output, not
8 to the standard error, and did not allow suppressing them with the
9 "--no-progress" option.
11 * "format-patch --from=<whom>" forgot to omit unnecessary in-body
12 from line, i.e. when <whom> is the same as the real author.
14 * "git shortlog" used to choke and die when there is a malformed
15 commit (e.g. missing authors); it now simply ignore such a commit
18 * "git merge-recursive" did not parse its "--diff-algorithm=" command
19 line option correctly.
21 * "git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
22 that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
23 local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.
25 * "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
26 that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
27 shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which
28 made it unnecessarily inefficient.
30 * When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history
31 during a "git fetch" into a shallow repository, objects that the
32 sending side knows the receiving end has were unnecessarily sent.
34 * When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
35 computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
36 dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a
37 small empty messages to keep the connection alive.
39 * When the webserver responds with "405 Method Not Allowed", "git
40 http-backend" should tell the client what methods are allowed with
43 * "git cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for
46 * The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around
47 ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git
48 for Windows where MSYS perl is used.
50 * We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a
51 gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a
54 * When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then
55 loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to
56 prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to
59 * "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical
60 "A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name
61 from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the
62 preferred author name.
64 * The commit object names in the insn sheet that was prepared at the
65 beginning of "rebase -i" session can become ambiguous as the
66 rebasing progresses and the repository gains more commits. Make
67 sure the internal record is kept with full 40-hex object names.
69 * "git rebase --preserve-merges" internally used the merge machinery
70 and as a side effect, left merge summary message in the log, but
71 when rebasing, there should not be a need for merge summary.
73 * "git rebase -i" forgot that the comment character can be
74 configurable while reading its insn sheet.
76 Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
77 updates, updates to the test suite, etc.