1 GIT v1.5.6.2 Release Notes
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7 * "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and
8 subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will
9 start to make sometime in the future.
14 * "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in
15 $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well.
17 * "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was
18 tagged with a lightweight tag.
20 * "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status
23 * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
24 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
25 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
26 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
27 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
29 * "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file",
30 but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous.
32 * "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another
33 annotated tag was given to it.
35 * Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a
36 serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for
37 moderately large import.
39 * "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file