1GIT v1.5.6.2 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Futureproof 5----------- 6 7 * "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and 8 subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will 9 start to make sometime in the future. 10 11Fixes since v1.5.6.1 12-------------------- 13 14* "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in 15 $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well. 16 17* "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was 18 tagged with a lightweight tag. 19 20* "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status 21 reliably. 22 23* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now 24 it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking 25 branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest 26 pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set 27 of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. 28 29* "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file", 30 but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous. 31 32* "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another 33 annotated tag was given to it. 34 35* Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a 36 serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for 37 moderately large import. 38 39* "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file 40 unnecessarily.