Git 1.8.4.1
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Jonathan Nieder committed
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Fixes since v1.8.4
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- * Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot
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- grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and
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- completion code started to use recently. The completion and
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- prompt scripts have been adjusted to work better with these old
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- versions of bash.
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-
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- * "git rebase -i" had a minor bug (the same could be in other
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- programs, as the root cause is pretty generic) where the code
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- feeds a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and expects it
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+ * Some old versions of bash do not grok some constructs like
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+ 'printf -v varname' which the prompt and completion code started
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+ to use recently. The completion and prompt scripts have been
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+ adjusted to work better with these old versions of bash.
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+ * In FreeBSD's and NetBSD's "sh", a return in a dot script in a
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+ function returns from the function, not only in the dot script,
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+ breaking "git rebase" on these platforms (regression introduced
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+ in 1.8.4-rc1).
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+
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+ * "git rebase -i" and other scripted commands were feeding a
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+ random, data dependant error message to 'echo' and expecting it
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to come out literally.
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- * "submodule.<name>.path" variable mistakenly set to the empty
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+ * Setting the "submodule.<name>.path" variable to the empty
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"true" caused the configuration parser to segfault.
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- * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange,
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+ * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange
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because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that
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touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths
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outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has
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shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow
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tags.
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- * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros,
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- the configuration parser did not compile.
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+ * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon
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+ failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error
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+ string from a wrong place.
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+ * A call to xread() was used without a loop to cope with short
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+ read in the codepath to stream large blobs to a pack.
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+ * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros, the
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+ configuration parser did not compile.
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+ * New versions of MediaWiki introduced a new API for returning
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+ more than 500 results in response to a query, which would cause
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+ the MediaWiki remote helper to go into an infinite loop.
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+ * Subversion's serf access method (the only one available in
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+ Subversion 1.8) for http and https URLs in skelta mode tells its
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+ caller to open multiple files at a time, which made "git svn
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+ fetch" complain that "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already
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+ in use" instead of fetching.
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Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
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updates, updates to the test suite, etc.
Documentation/git.txt
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branch of the `git.git` repository.
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Documentation for older releases are available here:
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-* link:v1.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4]
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+* link:v1.8.4.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4.1]
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* release notes for
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+ link:RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt[1.8.4.1],
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link:RelNotes/1.8.4.txt[1.8.4].
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* link:v1.8.3.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.4]
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
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-DEF_VER=v1.8.4
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