1 Git v1.7.8.2 Release Notes
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7 * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
8 and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
9 the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
10 type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
12 * The configuration file parser used for sizes (e.g. bigFileThreshold)
13 did not correctly interpret 'g' suffix.
15 * The replacement implementation for snprintf used on platforms with
16 native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly.
18 * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might
19 be technically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
20 to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository
21 data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that
24 * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set
25 SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors.
27 * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op but was not
30 * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both
31 sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict
34 * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary
35 sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the
36 command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits.
38 * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message"
41 * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
42 possibly corrupting the fan-out.
44 * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with
45 refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with
46 tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a
47 repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a
48 'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the
49 command incorrectly considered the former a "match".
51 * "git log --follow" did not honor the rename threshold score given
52 with the -M option (e.g. "-M50%").
54 * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites
55 target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option.
57 * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent
58 change and failed without asking for password when username is
61 * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a
62 recent change to the ref handling.
64 * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly
65 becomes verbose when asked to.
67 * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
68 we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
69 instead kept the original commit log message.
71 Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.