1Git v1.6.6.2 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.6.6.1 5-------------------- 6 7 * recursive merge didn't correctly diagnose its own programming errors, 8 and instead caused the caller to segfault. 9 10 * The new "smart http" aware clients probed the web servers to see if 11 they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport 12 correctly with some servers. 13 14 * Time based reflog syntax e.g. "@{yesterday}" didn't diagnose a misspelled 15 time specification and instead assumed "@{now}". 16 17 * "git archive HEAD -- no-such-directory" produced an empty archive 18 without complaining. 19 20 * "git blame -L start,end -- file" misbehaved when given a start that is 21 larger than the number of lines in the file. 22 23 * "git checkout -m" didn't correctly call custom merge backend supplied 24 by the end user. 25 26 * "git config -f <file>" misbehaved when run from a subdirectory. 27 28 * "git cvsserver" didn't like having regex metacharacters (e.g. '+') in 29 CVSROOT environment. 30 31 * "git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may 32 bust the pack size limit. 33 34 * "git gui" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git 35 directory. 36 37 * "git gui" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion. 38 39 * "git imap-send" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented. 40 41 * "git log" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by 42 mistake, which was especially irritating when running "git log --oneline". 43 44 * "git status" shouldn't require an write access to the repository. 45 46Other minor documentation updates are included.