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   1Git v1.8.5.5 Release Notes
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   3
   4Fixes since v1.8.5.4
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   7 * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git
   8   diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match
   9   some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved.
  10
  11 * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when
  12   the command was reimplemented in C.
  13
  14 * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where
  15   /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path
  16   (e.g. Fedora rawhide).
  17
  18 * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation
  19   and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters,
  20   e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed.
  21
  22 * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref
  23   directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different
  24   validation paths do different things on such a refname.  Loosen the
  25   client side's validation to allow such a ref.
  26
  27 * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits
  28   reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent
  29   bugfix.  This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series.
  30
  31 * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal
  32   result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself.
  33
  34 * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
  35   out, but it didn't.
  36
  37Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.