1Git 1.7.12.1 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.7.12 5------------------- 6 7 * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive 8 documentation. 9 10 * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", 11 but we didn't document it. 12 13 * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our 14 subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not 15 easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. 16 17 * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means 18 the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of 19 commands were poorly described in the documentation. 20 21 * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular 22 file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and 23 tags, which is not true for quite some time. 24 25 * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement 26 for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. 27 28 * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file 29 descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and 30 getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability. 31 32 * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL, 33 breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0. 34 35 * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. 36 37 * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. 38 39 * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then 40 died when the human-readable committer name was given 41 insufficiently by getpwent(3). 42 43 * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack 44 did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been 45 fixed not to do so. 46 47 * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary 48 files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). 49 50 * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were 51 inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). 52 53 * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that 54 rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." 55 started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. 56 57 * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a 58 message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to 59 the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. 60 61 * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the 62 working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have 63 name 0{40} recorded in a tree. 64 65 * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the 66 header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. 67 68 * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a 69 revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we 70 used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message 71 has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command 72 line. 73 74 * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with 75 SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.