X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt;h=0ce6316d75356500faf7e830eca54f9618064701;hb=905bf7742cf5f4a6dea2e75ba2dbd89d5dfaa793;hp=a9f1a6b8b53c141917d6ba015a49908c956d1044;hpb=bf0fe35c938ac9f03d1369600b0c76e428a57507;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt index a9f1a6b8b..0ce6316d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.1.4.txt @@ -4,15 +4,40 @@ GIT v1.6.1.4 Release Notes Fixes since v1.6.1.3 -------------------- +* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for + comment introduction character "#". + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.1. + * "git fast-export" produced wrong output with some parents missing from commits, when the history is clock-skewed. * "git fast-import" sometimes failed to read back objects it just wrote out and aborted, because it failed to flush stale cached data. +* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when + deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the + individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match + "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/", + and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't). + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3. + +* import-zips script (in contrib) did not compute the common directory + prefix correctly. + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.2. + +* "git init" segfaulted when given an overlong template location via + the --template= option. + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.4. + * "git repack" did not error out when necessary object was missing in the repository. +* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in + a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates + mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag + to prevent them from being repacked. + This fix was first merged to 1.6.2.3. + Also includes minor documentation fixes and updates. --