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1 Git 1.8.1.1 Release Notes
2 =========================
4 Fixes since v1.8.1
5 ------------------
7 * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
8 applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
9 exclude mechanism does.
11 * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
12 finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
13 message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
14 not exist there" and moving on.
16 * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
17 pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
19 * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the
20 authentication is done by certificate identity.
22 * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
23 attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
24 launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that
25 signal and die. We ignore these signals now.
27 * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
28 reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
29 spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
31 * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
32 index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
34 * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
35 excess trailing blank lines in some corner cases.
37 * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
38 way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
40 * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
41 failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
42 This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
44 * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
45 with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
46 the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
47 real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated
48 anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch.
50 * The "log --graph" codepath fell into infinite loop in some
51 corner cases.
53 * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
54 commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
55 status of the hook.
57 * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
58 created new refs had a race that can lose new ones.
60 * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
61 whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
62 to add a newline after such a line.
64 * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
65 GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
67 * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
68 activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
69 nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
71 * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
72 activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
73 nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
75 * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
76 "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
78 * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when
79 PYTHON_PATH changed.
81 * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
82 old version of the tutorial; removed.
84 * Portability issues in many self-test scripts have been addressed.
87 Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.