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   1Git v1.7.7.1 Release Notes
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   4Fixes since v1.7.7
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   7 * On some BSD systems, adding +s bit on directories is detrimental
   8   (it is not necessary on BSD to begin with). "git init --shared"
   9   has been updated to take this into account without extra makefile
  10   settings on platforms the Makefile knows about.
  11
  12 * After incorrectly written third-party tools store a tag object in
  13   HEAD, git diagnosed it as a repository corruption and refused to
  14   proceed in order to avoid spreading the damage. We now gracefully
  15   recover from such a situation by pretending as if the commit that
  16   is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
  17
  18 * "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
  19   line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
  20   of the file.
  21
  22 * "git apply --index" did not check corrupted patch.
  23
  24 * "git checkout $tree $directory/" resurrected paths locally removed or
  25   modified only in the working tree in $directory/ that did not appear
  26   in $directory of the given $tree. They should have been kept intact.
  27
  28 * "git diff $tree $path" used to apply the pathspec at the output stage,
  29   reading the whole tree, wasting resources.
  30
  31 * The code to check for updated submodules during a "git fetch" of the
  32   superproject had an unnecessary quadratic loop.
  33
  34 * "git fetch" from a large bundle did not enable the progress output.
  35
  36 * When "git fsck --lost-and-found" found that an empty blob object in the
  37   object store is unreachable, it incorrectly reported an error after
  38   writing the lost blob out successfully.
  39
  40 * "git filter-branch" did not refresh the index before checking that the
  41   working tree was clean.
  42
  43 * "git grep $tree" when run with multiple threads had an unsafe access to
  44   the object database that should have been protected with mutex.
  45
  46 * The "--ancestry-path" option to "git log" and friends misbehaved in a
  47   history with complex criss-cross merges and showed an uninteresting
  48   side history as well.
  49
  50 * Test t1304 assumed LOGNAME is always set, which may not be true on
  51   some systems.
  52
  53 * Tests with --valgrind failed to find "mergetool" scriptlets.
  54
  55 * "git patch-id" miscomputed the patch-id in a patch that has a line longer
  56   than 1kB.
  57
  58 * When an "exec" insn failed after modifying the index and/or the working
  59   tree during "rebase -i", we now check and warn that the changes need to
  60   be cleaned up.