| 1 | GIT v1.5.6.2 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Futureproof |
| 5 | ----------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and |
| 8 | subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will |
| 9 | start to make sometime in the future. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Fixes since v1.5.6.1 |
| 12 | -------------------- |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in |
| 15 | $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was |
| 18 | tagged with a lightweight tag. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status |
| 21 | reliably. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now |
| 24 | it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking |
| 25 | branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest |
| 26 | pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set |
| 27 | of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file", |
| 30 | but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another |
| 33 | annotated tag was given to it. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a |
| 36 | serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for |
| 37 | moderately large import. |
| 38 | |
| 39 | * "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file |
| 40 | unnecessarily. |