Git 1.9.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-Git v1.9 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes
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-Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
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When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
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traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
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* The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git
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diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match
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some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved.
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- (merge e4ddb05 as/tree-walk-fix-aggressive-short-cut later to maint).
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* "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when
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the command was reimplemented in C.
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- (merge b861e23 sb/repack-in-c later to maint).
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* An earlier update in v1.8.4.x to "git rev-list --objects" with
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negative ref had a performance regression.
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* A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where
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/etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path
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(e.g. Fedora rawhide).
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* A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation
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and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters,
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e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed.
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* "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref
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directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different
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validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the
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client side's validation to allow such a ref.
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* "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits
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reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent
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bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series.
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* documentations to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option because
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it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge".
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* "git diff A B submod" and "git diff A B submod/" ought to have done
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the same for a submodule "submod", but didn't.
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* The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote
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the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace.
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* The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
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a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
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names.
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* There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit for the number of
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parents of an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but
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there was.
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* The basic test used to leave unnecessary trash directories in the
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* "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal
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result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself.
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* A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a
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new "gc" process from starting, but it didn't.
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* An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak.
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* "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
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used to emit an error.
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* "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag
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nicely.
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* When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
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keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
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rough estimate of how many are available and we do not even attempt
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to use up all available file descriptors ourselves, it is nicer to
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fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.
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* read_sha1_file(), that is the workhorse to read the contents given
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an object name, honoured object replacements, but there was no
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* "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
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behave very well.
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* "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
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disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
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the same way.
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* "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
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out, but it didn't.
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* A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been
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retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that
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* SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
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layer in "git send-email".
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* "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
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editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
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control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
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first modified path was a submodule.
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Diagnose it as an error.
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* Remote repository URLs expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
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parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
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* "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
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command line parser.
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the named object.
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a tree with an 0{40} object in it.
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failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started
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