1 GIT v1.5.6.3 Release Notes
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7 * Setting core.sharerepository to traditional "true" value was supposed to make
8 the repository group writable but should not affect permission for others.
9 However, since 1.5.6, it was broken to drop permission for others when umask is
10 022, making the repository unreadable by others.
12 * Setting GIT_TRACE will report spawning of external process via run_command().
14 * Using an object with very deep delta chain pinned memory needed for extracting
15 intermediate base objects unnecessarily long, leading to excess memory usage.
17 * Bash completion script did not notice '--' marker on the command
18 line and tried the relatively slow "ref completion" even when
19 completing arguments after one.
21 * Registering a non-empty blob racily and then truncating the working
22 tree file for it confused "racy-git avoidance" logic into thinking
23 that the path is now unchanged.
25 * The section that describes attributes related to git-archive were placed
26 in a wrong place in the gitattributes(5) manual page.
28 * "git am" was not helpful to the users when it detected that the committer
29 information is not set up properly yet.
31 * "git clone" had a leftover debugging fprintf().
33 * "git clone -q" was not quiet enough as it used to and gave object count
36 * "git clone" marked downloaded packfile with .keep; this could be a
37 good thing if the remote side is well packed but otherwise not,
38 especially for a project that is not really big.
40 * "git daemon" used to call syslog() from a signal handler, which
41 could raise signals of its own but generally is not reentrant. This
42 was fixed by restructuring the code to report syslog() after the handler
45 * When "git push" tries to remove a remote ref, and corresponding
46 tracking ref is missing, we used to report error (i.e. failure to
47 remove something that does not exist).
49 * "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") did not handle commit log messages in a
50 MIME multipart mail correctly.
52 Contains other various documentation fixes.