| Junio C Hamano | e6dfbcf | 2012-07-22 13:07:40 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Git v1.7.11.3 Release Notes |
| 2 | =========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.7.11.3 |
| 5 | --------------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent |
| 8 | "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed |
| 9 | to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec, |
| 10 | which we don't. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than |
| 13 | necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group |
| 14 | writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002"). |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log |
| 17 | message, with or without "--allow-empty-message". |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to |
| 20 | rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they |
| 21 | have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but |
| 22 | it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes, |
| 25 | in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially |
| 26 | replacing index entries instead of adding. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and |
| 29 | unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it |
| 30 | walks. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the |
| 33 | comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference |
| 34 | involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git |
| 35 | diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making |
| 36 | any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level |
| 37 | incorrectly read from the standard input. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options |
| 40 | filters out an empty commit in the original history. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without |
| 43 | properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch, |
| 46 | should be forbidden, but it wasn't. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when |
| 49 | the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to |
| 50 | use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in |
| 51 | our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates. |
