| Git v1.8.4.2 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v1.8.4.1 |
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| * "git clone" gave some progress messages to the standard output, not |
| to the standard error, and did not allow suppressing them with the |
| "--no-progress" option. |
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| * "format-patch --from=<whom>" forgot to omit unnecessary in-body |
| from line, i.e. when <whom> is the same as the real author. |
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| * "git shortlog" used to choke and die when there is a malformed |
| commit (e.g. missing authors); it now simply ignore such a commit |
| and keeps going. |
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| * "git merge-recursive" did not parse its "--diff-algorithm=" command |
| line option correctly. |
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| * "git branch --track" had a minor regression in v1.8.3.2 and later |
| that made it impossible to base your local work on anything but a |
| local branch of the upstream repository you are tracking from. |
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| * "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree |
| that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but |
| shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which |
| made it unnecessarily inefficient. |
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| * When there is no sufficient overlap between old and new history |
| during a "git fetch" into a shallow repository, objects that the |
| sending side knows the receiving end has were unnecessarily sent. |
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| * When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side |
| computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as |
| dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a |
| small empty messages to keep the connection alive. |
| |
| * When the webserver responds with "405 Method Not Allowed", "git |
| http-backend" should tell the client what methods are allowed with |
| the "Allow" header. |
| |
| * "git cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for |
| executable files. |
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| * The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around |
| ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git |
| for Windows where MSYS perl is used. |
| |
| * We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a |
| gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a |
| gitfile. |
| |
| * When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then |
| loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to |
| prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to |
| has_sha1_file(). |
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| * "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical |
| "A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name |
| from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the |
| preferred author name. |
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| * The commit object names in the insn sheet that was prepared at the |
| beginning of "rebase -i" session can become ambiguous as the |
| rebasing progresses and the repository gains more commits. Make |
| sure the internal record is kept with full 40-hex object names. |
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| * "git rebase --preserve-merges" internally used the merge machinery |
| and as a side effect, left merge summary message in the log, but |
| when rebasing, there should not be a need for merge summary. |
| |
| * "git rebase -i" forgot that the comment character can be |
| configurable while reading its insn sheet. |
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| Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation |
| updates, updates to the test suite, etc. |