| Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v1.8.4 |
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| * Some old versions of bash do not grok some constructs like |
| 'printf -v varname' which the prompt and completion code started |
| to use recently. The completion and prompt scripts have been |
| adjusted to work better with these old versions of bash. |
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| * In FreeBSD's and NetBSD's "sh", a return in a dot script in a |
| function returns from the function, not only in the dot script, |
| breaking "git rebase" on these platforms (regression introduced |
| in 1.8.4-rc1). |
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| * "git rebase -i" and other scripted commands were feeding a |
| random, data dependant error message to 'echo' and expecting it |
| to come out literally. |
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| * Setting the "submodule.<name>.path" variable to the empty |
| "true" caused the configuration parser to segfault. |
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| * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange |
| because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that |
| touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths |
| outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has |
| changed. |
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| * The auto-tag-following code in "git fetch" tries to reuse the |
| same transport twice when the serving end does not cooperate and |
| does not give tags that point to commits that are asked for as |
| part of the primary transfer. Unfortunately, Git-aware transport |
| helper interface is not designed to be used more than once, hence |
| this did not work over smart-http transfer. Fixed. |
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| * Send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a smaller but still |
| reasonably large chunks, which would improve the latency when the |
| operation needs to be killed and incidentally works around broken |
| 64-bit systems that cannot take a 2GB write or read in one go. |
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| * A ".mailmap" file that ends with an incomplete line, when read |
| from a blob, was not handled properly. |
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| * The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a |
| shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow |
| tags. |
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| * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon |
| failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error |
| string from a wrong place. |
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| * A call to xread() was used without a loop to cope with short |
| read in the codepath to stream large blobs to a pack. |
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| * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros, the |
| configuration parser did not compile. |
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| * New versions of MediaWiki introduced a new API for returning |
| more than 500 results in response to a query, which would cause |
| the MediaWiki remote helper to go into an infinite loop. |
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| * Subversion's serf access method (the only one available in |
| Subversion 1.8) for http and https URLs in skelta mode tells its |
| caller to open multiple files at a time, which made "git svn |
| fetch" complain that "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already |
| in use" instead of fetching. |
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| Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation |
| updates, updates to the test suite, etc. |