1Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes 2========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.8.5.3 5-------------------- 6 7 * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. 8 Diagnose it as an error. 9 10 * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are 11 parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks 12 to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. 13 14 * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket 15 layer in "git send-email". 16 17 * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before 18 editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned 19 control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the 20 first modified path was a submodule. 21 22 * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error 23 out, but it didn't. 24 25 * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for 26 keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could 27 cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a 28 rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt 29 to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to 30 fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. 31 32 * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag 33 nicely. 34 35 * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree 36 used to emit an error. 37 38 * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of 39 parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but 40 there was. 41 42 * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote 43 the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. 44 45 * The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option 46 because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". 47 48Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.