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1 Git v1.8.4.2 Release Notes
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4 Fixes since v1.8.4.1
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7 * "git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later
8 that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a
9 local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from.
11 * "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
12 that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
13 shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which
14 made it unnecessarily inefficient.
16 * When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history
17 during a "git fetch" into a shallow repository, objects that the
18 sending side knows the receiving end has were unnecessarily sent.
20 * When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
21 computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
22 dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a
23 small empty messages to keep the connection alive.
25 * When the webserver responds with "405 Method Not Allowed", "git
26 http-backend" should tell the client what methods are allowed with
27 the "Allow" header.
29 * "git cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for
30 executable files.
32 * The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around
33 ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git
34 for Windows where MSYS perl is used.
36 * We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a
37 gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a
38 gitfile.
40 * When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then
41 loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to
42 prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to
43 has_sha1_file().
45 * "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical
46 "A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name
47 from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the
48 preferred author name.
50 * The commit object names in the insn sheet that was prepared at the
51 beginning of "rebase -i" session can become ambiguous as the
52 rebasing progresses and the repository gains more commits. Make
53 sure the internal record is kept with full 40-hex object names.
55 * "git rebase --preserve-merges" internally used the merge machinery
56 and as a side effect, left merge summary message in the log, but
57 when rebasing, there should not be a need for merge summary.
59 * "git rebase -i" forgot that the comment character can be
60 configurable while reading its insn sheet.
62 Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
63 updates, updates to the test suite, etc.