Fixes since v1.7.12
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- * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
- documentation.
-
- * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
- but we didn't document it.
+ * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
+ correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
+ places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
+ does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
+ changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
+ in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
+ this problem.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
+ then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
+ order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
+ expects.
- * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
- subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
- easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
+ died when the human-readable committer name was given
+ insufficiently by getpwent(3).
- * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
- the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
- commands were poorly described in the documentation.
+ * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
+ did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
+ fixed not to do so.
- * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
- file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
- tags, which is not true for quite some time.
+ * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
+ working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
+ name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
- * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
- for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort
+ option.
- * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+ * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
+ when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
+ Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
+ a case.
- * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
- died when the human-readable committer name was given
- insufficiently by getpwent(3).
+ * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
+ the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
+ commands were poorly described in the documentation.
* "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
+ * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
+ the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
+ configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
+ for POST.
+
* The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
- * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
- rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
- started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
-
* When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
- * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
- working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
- name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
+ * "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
+ wasn't.
+
+ * "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
+ commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
* "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
+ asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
+ guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
+ tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
+ please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
+ certainly not what the user meant.
+
+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
+ SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
+
* When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
line.
- * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
- SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
+ rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
+ started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
+
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
+ fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ documentation.
+
+ * "git-jump" script (in contrib/) did not work well when
+ diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is in effect.
+
+ * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
+ file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
+ tags, which is not true for quite some time.
+
+ * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
+ for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
+
+ * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
+ descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
+ getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
+
+ * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
+ breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
+
+ * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
+
+ * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+
+ * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
+ but we didn't document it.
+
+ * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
+ subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
+ easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
+
+ * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
+ branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
+ option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
+ documentation misleading.
+
+Also contains numerous documentation updates.