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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt | 26 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt index c507b129bb..6aa24c64c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt @@ -146,55 +146,44 @@ details). * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on variable names that was not checked consistently. - (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint). * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a BEL output. - (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint). * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. - (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint). * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the string literally. - (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint). * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was nonsense. - (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint). * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM instead. - (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint). * Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to "remote-tracking branch". - (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint). * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. - (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint). * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the repository-layout docs. - (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint). * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. - (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint). * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. A workaround has been added for this. - (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint). * For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one), we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/" @@ -203,7 +192,6 @@ details). * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking for changes. - (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint). * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended @@ -213,41 +201,35 @@ details). * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans across multiple lines. - (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint). * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working. - (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint). * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. - (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint). * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). - (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint). * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. - (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint). + + * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to + spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most + notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support. * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any content in the "git diff --stat" output. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed incorrectly. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output was computed incorrectly. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files when there were unmerged paths. - (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint). * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref that points to it did not remove it correctly. - (merge b274a71 jh/update-ref-d-through-symref later to maint). diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 76ffd4d4d6..4bc073cc13 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.8.1-rc0 +DEF_VER=v1.8.1-rc1 LF=' ' |