Git 1.7.11.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Fixes since v1.7.11.5
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-This consists primarily of documentation updates and low-impact code
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-clarification and bugfixes.
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-
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- - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
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+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
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documentation.
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- - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
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- but we didn't document it.
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+ * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a
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+ non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from
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+ running.
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- - It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
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- subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
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- easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
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+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
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+ rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
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+ started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
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- - The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
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- the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
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- commands were poorly described in the documentation.
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+ * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
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+ revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
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+ used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
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+ has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
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+ line.
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+ * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
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+ example.
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- - Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
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+ * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
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file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
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tags, which is not true for quite some time.
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- - A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
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- for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
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+ * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
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+ subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
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+ easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
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- - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
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+ * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
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+ the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
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+ commands were poorly described in the documentation.
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- - "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
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+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
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died when the human-readable committer name was given
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insufficiently by getpwent(3).
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- - The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
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- inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
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+ * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
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+ being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the
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+ documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a
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+ new code for "all other errors".
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- - When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
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- rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
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- started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
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+ * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an
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+ incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own.
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+
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+ * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
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+ working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
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+ name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
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- - When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
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+ * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
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+ but we didn't document it.
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+ * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
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message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
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the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
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- - "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
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- working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
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- name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
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+ * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
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+ inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
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- - "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
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+ * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
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header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
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- revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
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- used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
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- has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
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- line.
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+ * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts
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+ unlike other mergy operations.
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+
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+ * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
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+ submodule was misspelt.
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- - "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
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+ * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree
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+ that has local changes.
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+ (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).
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+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
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SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
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+ * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
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+ * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
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+ for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
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:v1.7.11.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.5]
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+* link:v1.7.11.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.6]
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* release notes for
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+ link:RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt[1.7.11.6],
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link:RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt[1.7.11.5],
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link:RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt[1.7.11.4],
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link:RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt[1.7.11.3],
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