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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 42 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 7cbe8a6b94..5c93f32779 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -167,13 +167,11 @@ details). * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling. - (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint). * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does not exist there" and moving on. - (merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint). * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn @@ -184,11 +182,9 @@ details). * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was spawned by us, with or without a shell in between. - (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint). * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. - (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the @@ -197,17 +193,18 @@ details). degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint). + * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, + when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). + (merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint). + * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing excess trailing blank lines. - (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint). * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. - (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint). * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. - (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint). * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a @@ -220,27 +217,21 @@ details). * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. - (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint). * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. - (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the code did not expect. - (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint). * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the authentication is done by certificate identity. - (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint). * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that created new refs had a nasty race. - (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint). * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. - (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there options at the same time, which was nonsensical. @@ -253,49 +244,43 @@ details). * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded without getting seen in the editor. - (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint). * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit status of the hook. - (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint). * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way. - (merge 6310071 nz/send-email-headers-are-case-insensitive later to maint). * Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction with "--untracked". - (merge a45fb69 ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory later to maint). * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely nothing in it early, which was not very useful. - (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint). * "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to "highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by mistake. - (merge 0e901d2 os/gitweb-highlight-uncaptured later to maint). * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed to add a newline after such a line. - (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint). * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>. - (merge ca87dd6 ds/completion-silence-in-tree-path-probe later to maint). * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space after completing a single directory name. - (merge 92f1c04 mk/complete-tcsh later to maint). + + * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with + older versions of bash by using a newer array notation. + (merge 50c5885 bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash later to maint). * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it around by explicitly setting it to the default value. - (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when PYTHON_PATH changed. @@ -303,24 +288,21 @@ details). * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. - (merge 1226504 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint). * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an old version of the tutorial; removed. - (merge 0a85441 ta/remove-stale-translated-tut later to maint). + + * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some + time ago. + (merge 336e2e2 tb/t0050-maint later to maint). * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that broke on OpenBSD. - (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. - (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). - (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). * t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct. - (merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint). - (merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint). |