1 GIT v1.5.0.2 Release Notes
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9 - Automated merge conflict handling when changes to symbolic
10 links conflicted were completely broken. The merge-resolve
11 strategy created a regular file with conflict markers in it
12 in place of the symbolic link. The default strategy,
13 merge-recursive was even more broken. It removed the path
14 that was pointed at by the symbolic link. Both of these
15 problems have been fixed.
17 - 'git diff maint master next' did not correctly give combined
18 diff across three trees.
20 - 'git fast-import' portability fix for Solaris.
22 - 'git show-ref --verify' without arguments did not error out
25 - 'git diff :tracked-file `pwd`/an-untracked-file' gave an extra
26 slashes after a/ and b/.
28 - 'git format-patch' produced too long filenames if the commit
29 message had too long line at the beginning.
31 - Running 'make all' and then without changing anything
32 running 'make install' still rebuilt some files. This
33 was inconvenient when building as yourself and then
34 installing as root (especially problematic when the source
35 directory is on NFS and root is mapped to nobody).
37 - 'git-rerere' failed to deal with two unconflicted paths that
38 sorted next to each other.
40 - 'git-rerere' attempted to open(2) a symlink and failed if
41 there was a conflict. Since a conflicting change to a
42 symlink would not benefit from rerere anyway, the command
43 now ignores conflicting changes to symlinks.
45 - 'git-repack' did not like to pass more than 64 arguments
46 internally to underlying 'rev-list' logic, which made it
47 impossible to repack after accumulating many (small) packs
50 - 'git-diff' to review the combined diff during a conflicted
51 merge were not reading the working tree version correctly
52 when changes to a symbolic link conflicted. It should have
53 read the data using readlink(2) but read from the regular
54 file the symbolic link pointed at.
56 - 'git-remote' did not like period in a remote's name.
58 * Documentation updates
60 - added and clarified core.bare, core.legacyheaders configurations.
62 - updated "git-clone --depth" documentation.
65 * Assorted git-gui fixes.