9c8ce7397b · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ Backward compatibility notes

7 "git submodule foreach $cmd $args" used to treat "$cmd $args" the same

8 way "ssh" did, concatenating them into a single string and letting the

9 shell unquote. Careless users who forget to sufficiently quote $args

10 -gets their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got

10 +get their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got

11 unexpected results due to this. Starting from this release, the

12 command line is passed directly to the shell, if it has an argument.

13

14 Read-only support for experimental loose-object format, in which users

15 -could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short

16 -while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped.

15 +could optionally choose to write their loose objects for a short

16 +while between v1.4.3 and v1.5.3 era, has been dropped.

17

18 -The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the

19 -command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same

18 +The meanings of the "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the

19 +command fetches tags _in addition to_ what is fetched by the same

20 command line without the option.

21

22 -The way "git push $there $what" interprets $what part given on the

22 +The way "git push $there $what" interprets the $what part given on the

23 command line, when it does not have a colon that explicitly tells us

24 what ref at the $there repository is to be updated, has been enhanced.

25

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

96 primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted

97 and we did not bother supporting such usage. This release attempts

98 to allow object transfer out of a shallowly-cloned repository in a

99 - more controlled way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository

99 + more controlled way (i.e. the receiver becomes a shallow repository

100 with a truncated history).

101

102 * Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS

@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

107 hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were

108 not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions.

109

110 - * Fetching 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while 'frotz/nitfol'

110 + * Fetching a 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while a 'frotz/nitfol'

111 remote-tracking branch from an earlier fetch was still there, would

112 error out, primarily because the command was not told that it is

113 allowed to lose any information on our side. "git fetch --prune"

114 - now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room to fetch and

115 - store 'frotz' remote-tracking branch.

114 + now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room for fetching and

115 + storing the 'frotz' remote-tracking branch.

116

117 * "diff.orderfile=<file>" configuration variable can be used to

118 pretend as if the "-O<file>" option were given from the command

@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes

218 for details).

219

220 * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git

221 - diff A B -- path1 path2") was too agrresive and failed to match

221 + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match

222 some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved.

223 (merge e4ddb05 as/tree-walk-fix-aggressive-short-cut later to maint).

224

@@ -227,11 +227,11 @@ for details).

227 (merge b861e23 sb/repack-in-c later to maint).

228

229 * An earlier update in v1.8.4.x to "git rev-list --objects" with

230 - negative ref had performance regression.

230 + negative ref had a performance regression.

231 (merge 200abe7 jk/mark-edges-uninteresting later to maint).

232

233 * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where

234 - /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists, but it cannot used as SSL_ca_path

234 + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path

235 (e.g. Fedora rawhide).

236 (merge 01645b7 rk/send-email-ssl-cert later to maint).

237

@@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ for details).

275 names.

276 (merge 82246b7 nd/daemon-informative-errors-typofix later to maint).

277

278 - * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of

279 - parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but

278 + * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit for the number of

279 + parents of an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but

280 there was.

281 (merge e228c17 js/lift-parent-count-limit later to maint).

282

@@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ for details).

306 * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for

307 keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could

308 cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a

309 - rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt

310 - to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to

309 + rough estimate of how many are available and we do not even attempt

310 + to use up all available file descriptors ourselves, it is nicer to

311 fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.

312 (merge 491a8de jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback later to maint).

313

@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ for details).

349 Diagnose it as an error.

350 (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint).

351

352 - * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are

352 + * Remote repository URLs expressed in scp-style host:path notation are

353 parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks

354 to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.

355 (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint).

release notes: typo fixes