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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt index f335bcfcdd..f8983c1477 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ Updates since v1.8.4 Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + * "git-svn" used with SVN 1.8.0 when talking over https:// connection + dumped core due to a bug in the serf library that SVN uses. Work + it around on our side, even though the SVN side is being fixed. + * On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it. Now we do. @@ -67,6 +71,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and + will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving + data over the wire. + * Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such @@ -136,6 +144,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we + should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we + apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat. + * Many commands use --dashed-option as a operation mode selector (e.g. "git tag --delete") that the user can use at most one (e.g. "git tag --delete --verify" is a nonsense) and you cannot @@ -165,6 +177,25 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for + executable files. + (merge 1b48d56 jc/cvsserver-perm-bit-fix later to maint). + + * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon + failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error string + from a wrong place. + (merge 6cb0c88 bc/send-email-ssl-die-message-fix later to maint). + + * The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around + ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git + for Windows where MSYS perl is used. + (merge df17e77 js/add-i-mingw later to maint). + + * We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a + gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a + gitfile. + (merge 487a2b7 nd/git-dir-pointing-at-gitfile later to maint). + * When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to |