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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..23977562a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.2 +------------------ + + * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not + acccumulate the prefix paths. + + * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort + filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to + sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting + numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in + alphabetical order. + + * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect + size of the file. + + * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the + most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the + user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative + spellings of UTF-8. + + * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line + parameters and issue errors in many cases. + + * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing. + + * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it + out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do. + + * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for + Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS + sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP. + + * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an + informational message when the translated version of it was too + long. + + * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the + command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly. + + * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the + correct objects. + + * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family + was described poorly. + + * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented. + + * The v4 index format was not documented. + + * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob + pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation. + + * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in + their system header (e.g. z/OS). + + * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch" + documentation. + + * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a + bundle that does not have any prerequisites. + + * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global + to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by + CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the + in-tree users use. |