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1 Git v2.1.4 Release Notes
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4 Fixes since v2.1.3
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7 * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is
8 running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out
9 such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem
10 would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what
11 the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking
12 a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component.
14 * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git"
15 are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were
16 ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode
17 codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if
18 it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are
19 rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not
20 affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to
21 reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted
22 projects.
24 * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can
25 be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration
26 set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be
27 rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving
28 filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case
29 insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms.
31 A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in
32 the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler.
34 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.