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@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
URL.
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+ hints to the user.
+
* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
distribution of clients.
@@ -64,6 +71,14 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
+ the cloning to the specified branch.
+ (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
+ did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
+ (merge 304970d th/diff-no-index-fixes later to maint).
+
* When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
"--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't