1 Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes
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7 * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored.
8 Diagnose it as an error.
10 * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
11 parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
12 to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.
14 * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
15 layer in "git send-email".
17 * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
18 editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
19 control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
20 first modified path was a submodule.
22 * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
25 * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
26 keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
27 cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a
28 rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt
29 to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to
30 fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.
32 * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag
35 * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
36 used to emit an error.
38 * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of
39 parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but
42 * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote
43 the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace.
45 * The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option
46 because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge".
48 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.