| 1 | GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.6.4 |
| 5 | ------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than |
| 8 | one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox) |
| 11 | as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it. |
| 12 | Apparently many people have been depending on this feature. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long |
| 15 | line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has |
| 18 | more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves |
| 19 | a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the |
| 22 | repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the |
| 23 | branch it is based on in an earlier fetch. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push" |
| 26 | documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the |
| 27 | command refuses an update to protect the user. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now |
| 30 | 256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized |
| 31 | repository would needlessly eat into swap. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository |
| 34 | that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by |
| 35 | "git clone -s"). |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between |
| 38 | the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too |
| 41 | deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | * Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes |
| 44 | incorrectly shown in "gitweb". |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Other minor documentation updates are included. |