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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-12-17 11:20:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-12-17 11:20:31 -0800 |
| commit | 6898b797218ca1f25818d813318b387d965dc1bb (patch) | |
| tree | eb41620da7ea49019cb97161646318f54225d647 /Documentation/RelNotes | |
| parent | Merge branch 'maint-1.8.5' into maint-1.9 (diff) | |
| parent | Git 1.8.5.6 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-6898b797218ca1f25818d813318b387d965dc1bb.tar.xz | |
Sync with v1.8.5.6
* maint-1.8.5:
Git 1.8.5.6
fsck: complain about NTFS ".git" aliases in trees
read-cache: optionally disallow NTFS .git variants
path: add is_ntfs_dotgit() helper
fsck: complain about HFS+ ".git" aliases in trees
read-cache: optionally disallow HFS+ .git variants
utf8: add is_hfs_dotgit() helper
fsck: notice .git case-insensitively
t1450: refactor ".", "..", and ".git" fsck tests
verify_dotfile(): reject .git case-insensitively
read-tree: add tests for confusing paths like ".." and ".git"
unpack-trees: propagate errors adding entries to the index
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt | 34 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..92ff92b1e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.8.5.6 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.5 +-------------------- + + * We used to allow committing a path ".Git/config" with Git that is + running on a case sensitive filesystem, but an attempt to check out + such a path with Git that runs on a case insensitive filesystem + would have clobbered ".git/config", which is definitely not what + the user would have expected. Git now prevents you from tracking + a path with ".Git" (in any case combination) as a path component. + + * On Windows, certain path components that are different from ".git" + are mapped to ".git", e.g. "git~1/config" is treated as if it were + ".git/config". HFS+ has a similar issue, where certain unicode + codepoints are ignored, e.g. ".g\u200cit/config" is treated as if + it were ".git/config". Pathnames with these potential issues are + rejected on the affected systems. Git on systems that are not + affected by this issue (e.g. Linux) can also be configured to + reject them to ensure cross platform interoperability of the hosted + projects. + + * "git fsck" notices a tree object that records such a path that can + be confused with ".git", and with receive.fsckObjects configuration + set to true, an attempt to "git push" such a tree object will be + rejected. Such a path may not be a problem on a well behaving + filesystem but in order to protect those on HFS+ and on case + insensitive filesystems, this check is enabled on all platforms. + +A big "thanks!" for bringing this issue to us goes to our friends in +the Mercurial land, namely, Matt Mackall and Augie Fackler. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. |