1 Git v1.7.11.2 Release Notes
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7 * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our
8 own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack
9 program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to
10 avoid use of this function in a threaded program.
12 * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a
13 submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an
14 equivalent operation to Porcelain writers.
16 * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
17 was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
19 * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
20 object names in its output are unique.
22 * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
23 history said "it requires these 0 commits".
25 * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
26 the cloning to the specified branch.
28 * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
29 did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
31 * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
33 * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
34 claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
36 * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
37 "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
38 simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't
39 been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or
40 taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification
41 logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic
42 ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue.
44 * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
45 excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
46 while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
49 * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
50 with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
51 but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
53 Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates.