1 GIT v1.6.0.3 Release Notes
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7 * "git archive --format=zip" did not honor core.autocrlf while
10 * Continuing "git rebase -i" was very confused when the user left modified
11 files in the working tree while resolving conflicts.
13 * Continuing "git rebase -i" was also very confused when the user left
14 some staged changes in the index after "edit".
16 * "git rebase -i" now honors the pre-rebase hook, just like the
17 other rebase implementations "git rebase" and "git rebase -m".
19 * "git rebase -i" incorrectly aborted when there is no commit to replay.
21 * Behaviour of "git diff --quiet" was inconsistent with "diff --exit-code"
22 with the output redirected to /dev/null.
24 * "git diff --no-index" on binary files no longer outputs a bogus
25 "diff --git" header line.
27 * "git diff" hunk header patterns with multiple elements separated by LF
28 were not used correctly.
30 * Hunk headers in "git diff" default to using extended regular
31 expressions, fixing some of the internal patterns on non-GNU
34 * New config "diff.*.xfuncname" exposes extended regular expressions
35 for user specified hunk header patterns.
37 * "git gc" when ejecting otherwise unreachable objects from packfiles into
38 loose form leaked memory.
40 * "git index-pack" was recently broken and mishandled objects added by
41 thin-pack completion processing under memory pressure.
43 * "git index-pack" was recently broken and misbehaved when run from inside
44 .git/objects/pack/ directory.
46 * "git stash apply sash@{1}" was fixed to error out. Prior versions
47 would have applied stash@{0} incorrectly.
49 * "git stash apply" now offers a better suggestion on how to continue
50 if the working tree is currently dirty.
52 * "git for-each-ref --format=%(subject)" fixed for commits with no
53 no newline in the message body.
55 * "git remote" fixed to protect printf from user input.
57 * "git remote show -v" now displays all URLs of a remote.
59 * "git checkout -b branch" was confused when branch already existed.
61 * "git checkout -q" once again suppresses the locally modified file list.
63 * "git clone -q", "git fetch -q" asks remote side to not send
64 progress messages, actually making their output quiet.
66 * Cross-directory renames are no longer used when creating packs. This
67 allows more graceful behavior on filesystems like sshfs.
69 * Stale temporary files under $GIT_DIR/objects/pack are now cleaned up
70 automatically by "git prune".
72 * "git merge" once again removes directories after the last file has
73 been removed from it during the merge.
75 * "git merge" did not allocate enough memory for the structure itself when
76 enumerating the parents of the resulting commit.
78 * "git blame -C -C" no longer segfaults while trying to pass blame if
79 it encounters a submodule reference.
81 * "git rm" incorrectly claimed that you have local modifications when a
82 path was merely stat-dirty.
84 * "git svn" fixed to display an error message when 'set-tree' failed,
85 instead of a Perl compile error.
87 * "git submodule" fixed to handle checking out a different commit
88 than HEAD after initializing the submodule.
90 * The "git commit" error message when there are still unmerged
91 files present was clarified to match "git write-tree".
93 * "git init" was confused when core.bare or core.sharedRepository are set
94 in system or user global configuration file by mistake. When --bare or
95 --shared is given from the command line, these now override such
96 settings made outside the repositories.
98 * Some segfaults due to uncaught NULL pointers were fixed in multiple
99 tools such as apply, reset, update-index.
101 * Solaris builds now default to OLD_ICONV=1 to avoid compile warnings;
102 Solaris 8 does not define NEEDS_LIBICONV by default.
104 * "Git.pm" tests relied on unnecessarily more recent version of Perl.
106 * "gitweb" triggered undef warning on commits without log messages.
108 * "gitweb" triggered undef warnings on missing trees.
110 * "gitweb" now removes PATH_INFO from its URLs so users don't have
111 to manually set the URL in the gitweb configuration.
113 * Bash completion removed support for legacy "git-fetch", "git-push"
114 and "git-pull" as these are no longer installed. Dashless form
115 ("git fetch") is still however supported.
117 Many other documentation updates.