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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-12 14:36:39 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-12 14:36:39 -0700
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parentMerge branch 'jc/maint-checkout-fileglob-doc' (diff)
parentFurther merging in preparation for 1.7.12.1 (diff)
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@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
+ * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
+ branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
+ option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
+ documentation misleading.
+
* The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
commands were poorly described in the documentation.
@@ -36,6 +41,14 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
* Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+ * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
+ correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
+ places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
+ does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
+ changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
+ in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
+ this problem.
+
* "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
died when the human-readable committer name was given
insufficiently by getpwent(3).
@@ -44,9 +57,22 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12
did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
fixed not to do so.
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
+ option.
+
+ * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
+ when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
+ Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
+ a case.
+
* "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
+ * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
+ the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
+ configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
+ for POST.
+
* The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).