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1 Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes
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4 Fixes since v1.7.12
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7 * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
8 correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
9 places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
10 does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
11 changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
12 in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
13 this problem.
15 * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
16 then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
17 order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
18 expects.
20 * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
21 died when the human-readable committer name was given
22 insufficiently by getpwent(3).
24 * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
25 did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
26 fixed not to do so.
28 * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
29 working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
30 name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
32 * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
33 option.
35 * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
36 when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
37 Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
38 a case.
40 * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
41 the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
42 commands were poorly described in the documentation.
44 * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
45 files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
47 * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
48 the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
49 configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
50 for POST.
52 * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
53 inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
55 * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
56 message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
57 the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
59 * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
60 wasn't.
62 * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
63 commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
65 * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
66 header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
68 * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
69 asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
70 guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
71 tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
72 please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
73 certainly not what the user meant.
75 * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
76 SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
78 * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
79 revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
80 used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
81 has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
82 line.
84 * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
85 rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
86 started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
88 * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
89 references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
90 contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
92 * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
93 documentation.
95 * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
96 file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
97 tags, which is not true for quite some time.
99 * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
100 for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
102 * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
103 descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
104 getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
106 * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
107 breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
109 * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
111 * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
113 * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
114 but we didn't document it.
116 * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
117 subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
118 easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
120 * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
121 branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
122 option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
123 documentation misleading.