1 Git v1.7.0.1 Release Notes
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7 * In a freshly created repository "rev-parse HEAD^0" complained that
8 it is dangling symref, even though "rev-parse HEAD" didn't.
10 * "git show :no-such-name" tried to access the index without bounds
11 check, leading to a potential segfault.
13 * Message from "git cherry-pick" was harder to read and use than necessary
14 when it stopped due to conflicting changes.
16 * We referred to ".git/refs/" throughout the documentation when we
17 meant to talk about abstract notion of "ref namespace". Because
18 people's repositories often have packed refs these days, this was
21 * "git diff --output=/path/that/cannot/be/written" did not correctly
24 * "git grep -e -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." could not be
25 spelled as "git grep -- -pattern-that-begin-with-dash paths..." which
26 would be a GNU way to use "--" as "end of options".
28 * "git grep" compiled with threading support tried to access an
29 uninitialized mutex on boxes with a single CPU.
31 * "git stash pop -q --index" failed because the unnecessary --index
32 option was propagated to "git stash drop" that is internally run at the
35 And other minor fixes and documentation updates.