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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 30 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 861ef026d6..78c6577665 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ Many users found this counter-intuitive, given that "git commit -a" and other commands operate on the entire tree regardless of where you are. In this release, these commands give warning in such a case and encourage the user to say "git add -u/-A ." instead when restricting -the scope to the current directory. At Git 2.0 (not *this* one), we -plan to change these commands without pathspec to operate on the -entire tree, and training your fingers to type "." will protect you -against the future change. +the scope to the current directory. + +At Git 2.0 (not *this* one), we plan to change these commands without +pathspec to operate on the entire tree. Forming a habit to type "." +when you mean to limit the command to the current working directory +will protect you against the planned future change, and that is the +whole point of the new message (there will be no configuration +variable to squelch this warning---it goes against the "habit forming" +objective). Updates since v1.8.1 @@ -463,3 +468,20 @@ details). * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH. + + * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES could be a "logical" pathname + that uses a symbolic link to point at somewhere else (e.g. /home/me + that points at /net/host/export/home/me, and the latter directory + is automounted). Earlier when Git saw such a pathname e.g. /home/me + on this environment variable, the "ceiling" mechanism did not take + effect. With this release (the fix has also been merged to the + v1.8.1.x maintenance series), elements on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES + are by default checked for such aliasing coming from symbolic + links. As this needs to actually resolve symbolic links for each + element on the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES, you can disable this + mechanism for some elements by listing them after an empty element + on the GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES. e.g. Setting /home/me::/home/him to + GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES makes Git resolve symbolic links in + /home/me when checking if the current directory is under /home/me, + but does not do so for /home/him. + (merge 7ec30aa mh/maint-ceil-absolute later to maint). |