| 1 | Git v1.6.5.5 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.6.5.4 |
| 5 | -------------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * Manual pages can be formatted with older xmlto again. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * GREP_OPTIONS exported from user's environment could have broken |
| 10 | our scripted commands. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with |
| 13 | ~/ and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected. This is not a |
| 14 | bugfix but 1.6.6 will have this and without backporting users cannot |
| 15 | easily use the same ~/.gitconfig across versions. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * "git diff -B -M" did the same computation to hash lines of contents |
| 18 | twice, and held onto memory after it has used the data in it |
| 19 | unnecessarily before it freed. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * "git diff -B" and "git diff --dirstat" was not counting newly added |
| 22 | contents correctly. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * "git format-patch revisions... -- path" issued an incorrect error |
| 25 | message that suggested to use "--" on the command line when path |
| 26 | does not exist in the current work tree (it is a separate matter if |
| 27 | it makes sense to limit format-patch with pathspecs like that |
| 28 | without using the --full-diff option). |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * "git grep -F -i StRiNg" did not work as expected. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * Enumeration of available merge strategies iterated over the list of |
| 33 | commands in a wrong way, sometimes producing an incorrect result. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * "git shortlog" did not honor the "encoding" header embedded in the |
| 36 | commit object like "git log" did. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * Reading progress messages that come from the remote side while running |
| 39 | "git pull" is given precedence over reading the actual pack data to |
| 40 | prevent garbled progress message on the user's terminal. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * "git rebase" got confused when the log message began with certain |
| 43 | strings that looked like Subject:, Date: or From: header. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | * "git reset" accidentally run in .git/ directory checked out the |
| 46 | work tree contents in there. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | |
| 49 | Other minor documentation updates are included. |