1 GIT v1.5.3.7 Release Notes
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7 * git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without
8 marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header.
10 * "git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD" dereferenced the symref and
11 did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle
12 from being used as a normal source of git-clone.
14 * The code to reject nonsense command line of the form
15 "git-commit -a paths..." and "git-commit --interactive
16 paths..." were broken.
18 * Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original
19 commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII.
20 "git-format-patch -s" did not mark such a message correctly
21 with MIME encoding header.
23 * git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry
24 stat-clean. This affected only cases when adding the
25 contents with the same length as the previously staged
26 contents, and the previous staging made the index entry
29 * git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the
32 * When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the
33 updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the
36 * "git-rev-list --objects" mishandled a tree that points at a
39 * "git cvsimport" was not ready for packed refs that "git gc" can
40 produce and gave incorrect results.
42 * Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you happened to have a
43 file called "HEAD" in your work tree.
45 Also it contains updates to the user manual and documentation.