| 1 | Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.8.0 |
| 5 | ------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on |
| 8 | variable names that was not checked consistently. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed |
| 11 | "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a |
| 12 | BEL output. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing |
| 15 | with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle |
| 16 | it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> |
| 19 | pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the |
| 20 | string literally. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read |
| 23 | "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was |
| 24 | nonsense. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git |
| 27 | branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM |
| 28 | instead. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch" |
| 31 | to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated |
| 32 | spelling snuck in to a few places since then. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find |
| 35 | the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition |
| 36 | does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the |
| 39 | repository-layout docs. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout |
| 42 | value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http |
| 43 | transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. |
| 44 | A workaround has been added for this. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the |
| 47 | From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking |
| 50 | for changes. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a |
| 53 | lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique" |
| 54 | command line. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. |
| 57 | |
| 58 | * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean |
| 59 | "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say |
| 62 | "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates. |