Merge accumulated fixes to prepare for 1.7.0.3

[git.git] / Documentation / RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt
index 970cd59330b67d3ddb7e7016c949e9c0a216517f..8ff5bcada81f47f321eb6b7cb3a67963fe92a088 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.7.0.1.txt
@@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ Fixes since v1.7.0
  * In a freshly created repository "rev-parse HEAD^0" complained that
    it is dangling symref, even though "rev-parse HEAD" didn't.
 
+ * "git show :no-such-name" tried to access the index without bounds
+   check, leading to a potential segfault.
+
  * Message from "git cherry-pick" was harder to read and use than necessary
    when it stopped due to conflicting changes.
 
+ * We referred to ".git/refs/" throughout the documentation when we
+   meant to talk about abstract notion of "ref namespace".  Because
+   people's repositories often have packed refs these days, this was
+   confusing.
+
  * "git diff --output=/path/that/cannot/be/written" did not correctly
    error out.
 
@@ -24,8 +32,4 @@ Fixes since v1.7.0
    option was propagated to "git stash drop" that is internally run at the
    end.
 
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe)
-O=v1.7.0-22-gc69f921
-git shortlog $O..
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.