1Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.8.0 5------------------ 6 7 * The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on 8 variable names that was not checked consistently. 9 10 * The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed 11 "echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a 12 BEL output. 13 14 * "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing 15 with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle 16 it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file. 17 18 * "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere> 19 pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the 20 string literally. 21 22 * "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read 23 "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was 24 nonsense. 25 26 * A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git 27 branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM 28 instead. 29 30 * Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch" 31 to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated 32 spelling snuck in to a few places since then. 33 34 * "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find 35 the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition 36 does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages. 37 38 * The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the 39 repository-layout docs. 40 41 * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout 42 value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http 43 transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. 44 A workaround has been added for this. 45 46 * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the 47 From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. 48 49 * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking 50 for changes. 51 52 * Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a 53 lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique" 54 command line. 55 56 * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. 57 58 * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean 59 "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). 60 61 * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say 62 "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. 63 64Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.