| 1 | Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v1.8.5.3 |
| 5 | -------------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. |
| 8 | Diagnose it as an error. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are |
| 11 | parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks |
| 12 | to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket |
| 15 | layer in "git send-email". |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before |
| 18 | editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned |
| 19 | control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the |
| 20 | first modified path was a submodule. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error |
| 23 | out, but it didn't. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for |
| 26 | keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could |
| 27 | cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a |
| 28 | rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt |
| 29 | to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to |
| 30 | fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag |
| 33 | nicely. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree |
| 36 | used to emit an error. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of |
| 39 | parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but |
| 40 | there was. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote |
| 43 | the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | * The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option |
| 46 | because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". |
| 47 | |
| 48 | Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. |