| 1 | Git 1.8.1.5 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.8.1.4 |
| 5 | -------------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * Given a string with a multi-byte character that begins with '-' on |
| 8 | the command line where an option is expected, the option parser |
| 9 | used just one byte of the unknown letter when reporting an error. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * In v1.8.1, the attribute parser was tightened too restrictive to |
| 12 | error out upon seeing an entry that begins with an ! (exclamation), |
| 13 | which may confuse users to expect a "negative match", which does |
| 14 | not exist. This has been demoted to a warning; such an entry is |
| 15 | still ignored. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity |
| 18 | value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a |
| 19 | bogus value. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes ended |
| 22 | up finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a |
| 23 | confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an |
| 24 | untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there |
| 25 | which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions |
| 26 | and then reports the outcome more faithfully. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there |
| 29 | options at the same time, which was nonsensical. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * "git cvsimport" mishandled timestamps at DST boundary. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input, |
| 34 | resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing |
| 35 | the "--raw --cc" output. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes |
| 38 | back from the server side to make sure that the request is being |
| 39 | handled properly. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * "git help remote-helpers" failed to find the documentation. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | * "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or |
| 44 | gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via |
| 45 | HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Also contains various documentation fixes. |