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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-12-17 11:42:28 -0800 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-12-17 11:42:28 -0800 |
commit | 58f1d950e373afe35ed8661045914d23e973d067 (patch) | |
tree | 5cc72572de28cfd1f2e9e6d0b1f6299998f15725 /Documentation | |
parent | Merge branch 'nd/gitignore-trailing-whitespace' into maint (diff) | |
parent | Git 2.0.5 (diff) | |
download | tgif-58f1d950e373afe35ed8661045914d23e973d067.tar.xz |
Sync with v2.0.5
* maint-2.0:
Git 2.0.5
Git 1.9.5
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')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 9 |
5 files changed, 119 insertions, 3 deletions
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. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8d6ac0cf53 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v1.9.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v1.9.4 +------------------ + + * 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. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a16f697e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Git v2.0.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.0.4 +------------------ + + * 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. diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6ae4d90708..0a4d22aaf7 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -233,6 +233,17 @@ core.precomposeunicode:: When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older versions of Git. +core.protectHFS:: + If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would + be considered equivalent to `.git` on an HFS+ filesystem. + Defaults to `true` on Mac OS, and `false` elsewhere. + +core.protectNTFS:: + If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would + cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with + 8.3 "short" names. + Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere. + core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 5627845114..ffde2b80b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -51,27 +51,30 @@ Documentation for older releases are available here: link:RelNotes/2.1.1.txt[2.1.1], link:RelNotes/2.1.0.txt[2.1]. -* link:v2.0.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.4] +* link:v2.0.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.0.5] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.0.5.txt[2.0.5], link:RelNotes/2.0.4.txt[2.0.4], link:RelNotes/2.0.3.txt[2.0.3], link:RelNotes/2.0.2.txt[2.0.2], link:RelNotes/2.0.1.txt[2.0.1], link:RelNotes/2.0.0.txt[2.0.0]. -* link:v1.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.9.4] +* link:v1.9.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.9.5] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.9.5.txt[1.9.5], link:RelNotes/1.9.4.txt[1.9.4], link:RelNotes/1.9.3.txt[1.9.3], link:RelNotes/1.9.2.txt[1.9.2], link:RelNotes/1.9.1.txt[1.9.1], link:RelNotes/1.9.0.txt[1.9.0]. -* link:v1.8.5.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.5] +* link:v1.8.5.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.5.6] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.5.6.txt[1.8.5.6], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt[1.8.5.5], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt[1.8.5.4], link:RelNotes/1.8.5.3.txt[1.8.5.3], |