X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt;h=b2f3f0293c0da729d642dc7e4645df26c86c338d;hb=64fb90b7076eda54d894484ce34a91632997cd2b;hp=a3fceebb118301ab08597fb2d89d560ae084d547;hpb=f2823263bd53b62831450277c746c6cbfcb95a15;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt index a3fceebb1..b2f3f0293 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.2.txt @@ -8,44 +8,54 @@ Fixes since v1.6.3.1 casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this, and aborted compilation. - * http-push had a small use-after-free bug. - - * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are - in a bare repository. - - * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object - created by an ancient git. - * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed. * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base. + * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of + merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor + gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead + produced an empty result. + * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases. + * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim". + + * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to + create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and + $(bindir)/git. + + * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are + in a bare repository. + * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We silently make it a no-op now. + * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when + the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and + both halves are marked to be used. + + * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file + from a directory with some files in it. + + * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object + created by an ancient git. + * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered configuration was set. - * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim". + * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had + subtle bugs with its -w option. - * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to - create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and - $(bindir)/git. + * http-push had a small use-after-free bug. * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer, making the transferred data unnecessarily larger. + * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty. + Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages and documentation are included as well. - ---- -exec >/var/tmp/1 -O=v1.6.3.1-51-g2a1feb9 -echo O=$(git describe maint) -git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint -