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   1GIT v1.5.0.2 Release Notes
   2==========================
   3
   4Fixes since v1.5.0.1
   5--------------------
   6
   7* Bugfixes
   8
   9  - Automated merge conflict handling when changes to symbolic
  10    links conflicted were completely broken.  The merge-resolve
  11    strategy created a regular file with conflict markers in it
  12    in place of the symbolic link.  The default strategy,
  13    merge-recursive was even more broken.  It removed the path
  14    that was pointed at by the symbolic link.  Both of these
  15    problems have been fixed.
  16
  17  - 'git diff maint master next' did not correctly give combined
  18    diff across three trees.
  19
  20  - 'git fast-import' portability fix for Solaris.
  21
  22  - 'git show-ref --verify' without arguments did not error out
  23    but segfaulted.
  24
  25  - 'git diff :tracked-file `pwd`/an-untracked-file' gave an extra
  26    slashes after a/ and b/.
  27
  28  - 'git format-patch' produced too long filenames if the commit
  29    message had too long line at the beginning.
  30
  31  - Running 'make all' and then without changing anything
  32    running 'make install' still rebuilt some files.  This
  33    was inconvenient when building as yourself and then
  34    installing as root (especially problematic when the source
  35    directory is on NFS and root is mapped to nobody).
  36
  37  - 'git-rerere' failed to deal with two unconflicted paths that
  38    sorted next to each other.
  39
  40  - 'git-rerere' attempted to open(2) a symlink and failed if
  41    there was a conflict.  Since a conflicting change to a
  42    symlink would not benefit from rerere anyway, the command
  43    now ignores conflicting changes to symlinks.
  44
  45  - 'git-repack' did not like to pass more than 64 arguments
  46    internally to underlying 'rev-list' logic, which made it
  47    impossible to repack after accumulating many (small) packs
  48    in the repository.
  49
  50  - 'git-diff' to review the combined diff during a conflicted
  51    merge were not reading the working tree version correctly
  52    when changes to a symbolic link conflicted.  It should have
  53    read the data using readlink(2) but read from the regular
  54    file the symbolic link pointed at.
  55
  56  - 'git-remote' did not like period in a remote's name.
  57
  58* Documentation updates
  59
  60  - added and clarified core.bare, core.legacyheaders configurations.
  61
  62  - updated "git-clone --depth" documentation.
  63
  64
  65* Assorted git-gui fixes.