Fixes since v1.7.9
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+ * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in
+ command names suffixed with unnecessary strings.
+
+ * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton}
+ wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that
+ broke Solaris build.
+
+ * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
+
* Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
+ * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
+ submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
+ prepared by for the user to edit.
+
+ * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
+
* Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
specified paths came.
- * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
+ * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.
- * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
- report an error correctly to the end user.
+ * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
+ required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
+ operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
+ it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag.
* "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
case.
+ * "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
+
+ * When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
+ report an error correctly to the end user.
+
+ * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
+ timestamps near year 1970.
+
* When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older
clients.
in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
superproject and already initialized.
+ * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.
+
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.