1Git v1.8.2.1 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.8.2 5------------------ 6 7 * The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of 8 files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the 9 common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped. 10 11 * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not 12 acccumulate the prefix paths. 13 14 * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort 15 filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to 16 sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting 17 numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in 18 alphabetical order. 19 20 * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect 21 size of the file. 22 23 * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the 24 most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the 25 user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative 26 spellings of UTF-8. 27 28 * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line 29 parameters and issue errors in many cases. 30 31 * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing. 32 33 * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it 34 out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do. 35 36 * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for 37 Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS 38 sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP. 39 40 * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an 41 informational message when the translated version of it was too 42 long. 43 44 * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the 45 command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly. 46 47 * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the 48 correct objects. 49 50 * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family 51 was described poorly. 52 53 * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented. 54 55 * The v4 index format was not documented. 56 57 * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob 58 pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation. 59 60 * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in 61 their system header (e.g. z/OS). 62 63 * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch" 64 documentation. 65 66 * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a 67 bundle that does not have any prerequisites. 68 69 * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global 70 to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by 71 CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the 72 in-tree users use. 73 74 * "git merge-tree" had a typo in the logic to detect d/f conflicts, 75 which caused it to segfault in some cases.