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1 Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes
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4 Fixes since v1.8.0
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7 * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
8 variable names that was not checked consistently.
10 * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
11 "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
12 BEL output.
14 * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
15 with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
16 it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.
18 * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
19 pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
20 string literally.
22 * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
23 "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
24 nonsense.
26 * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
27 branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
28 instead.
30 * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch"
31 to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated
32 spelling snuck in to a few places since then.
34 * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
35 the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
36 does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.
38 * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
39 repository-layout docs.
41 * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
42 value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http
43 transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
44 A workaround has been added for this.
46 Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.