Git 1.8.1-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 7, 2012 at 14:18 UTC
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* The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
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variable names that was not checked consistently.
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- (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint).
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* The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
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"echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
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BEL output.
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- (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint).
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* "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
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with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
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it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.
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- (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint).
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* "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
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pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
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string literally.
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- (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint).
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* "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
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"<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
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nonsense.
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- (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint).
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* A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
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branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
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instead.
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- (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint).
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* Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to
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"remote-tracking branch".
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- (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint).
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* "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
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the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
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does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.
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- (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint).
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* The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
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repository-layout docs.
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- (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
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* Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
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From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.
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* Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
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value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http
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transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
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A workaround has been added for this.
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- (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).
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* For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one),
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we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/"
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* "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
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for changes.
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* Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase
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(not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended
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* "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans
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across multiple lines.
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- (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint).
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* Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working.
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- (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint).
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* RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.
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- (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint).
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* "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
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"true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").
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- (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint).
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* "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
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"Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.
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- (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
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+ * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to
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+ spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most
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+ notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support.
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* We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose
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permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any
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content in the "git diff --stat" output.
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- (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
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* When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total
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number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed
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incorrectly.
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* When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total
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number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output
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was computed incorrectly.
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- (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
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* "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files
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when there were unmerged paths.
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- (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
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* "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref
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that points to it did not remove it correctly.
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