Documentation / RelNotes / 1.7.11.7.txton commit Update draft release notes to 1.8.3 (961c512)
   1Git v1.7.11.7 Release Notes
   2===========================
   3
   4Fixes since v1.7.11.6
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   6
   7 * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
   8   branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
   9   option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
  10   documentation misleading.
  11
  12 * Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
  13   buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
  14   platform regexp.  A new test has been added to check this.
  15
  16 * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
  17   correctly.  This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
  18   places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
  19   does not rename nor change mode).  Textual patches, renames or mode
  20   changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
  21   in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
  22   this problem.
  23
  24 * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
  25   references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
  26   contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
  27
  28 * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
  29   option.
  30
  31 * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
  32   when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
  33   Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
  34   a case.
  35
  36 * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
  37   the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
  38   configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
  39   for POST.
  40
  41 * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
  42   commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
  43   (merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
  44
  45 * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
  46   wasn't.