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1 Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes
2 ==========================
4 Fixes since v1.8.2
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7 * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
8 or en/US locale.
10 * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
11 $msg already ended with one.
13 * The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
14 "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
15 base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
16 to those that match the given pattern.
18 * An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
19 it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
21 * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
22 it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
23 the middle of it.
25 * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
26 of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
27 archive back in such a case.
29 * "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
30 creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
32 * "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
33 instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
35 * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
36 correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
38 * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
39 platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
40 hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
42 * The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
43 files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
44 common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
46 * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
47 acccumulate the prefix paths.
49 * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
50 filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
51 sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
52 numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
53 alphabetical order.
55 * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
56 size of the file.
58 * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
59 most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
60 user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
61 spellings of UTF-8.
63 * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
64 parameters and issue errors in many cases.
66 * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
68 * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
69 out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
71 * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
72 Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
73 sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
75 * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an
76 informational message when the translated version of it was too
77 long.
79 * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
80 command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
82 * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
83 correct objects.
85 * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
86 was described poorly.
88 * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
90 * The v4 index format was not documented.
92 * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
93 pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.
95 * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in
96 their system header (e.g. z/OS).
98 * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
99 documentation.
101 * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a
102 bundle that does not have any prerequisites.
104 * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
105 to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
106 CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
107 in-tree users use.
109 * "git merge-tree" had a typo in the logic to detect d/f conflicts,
110 which caused it to segfault in some cases.