1Git v1.7.11.2 Release Notes 2=========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.7.11.1 5--------------------- 6 7 * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our 8 own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack 9 program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to 10 avoid use of this function in a threaded program. 11 12 * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a 13 submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an 14 equivalent operation to Porcelain writers. 15 16 * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom 17 was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set. 18 19 * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit 20 object names in its output are unique. 21 22 * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete 23 history said "it requires these 0 commits". 24 25 * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit 26 the cloning to the specified branch. 27 28 * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and 29 did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option. 30 31 * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly. 32 33 * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that 34 claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it. 35 36 * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with 37 "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the 38 simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't 39 been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or 40 taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification 41 logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic 42 ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue. 43 44 * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as 45 excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths 46 while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also 47 updated. 48 49 * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged 50 with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output 51 but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag. 52 53Also contains minor typofixes and documentation updates.