* In a freshly created repository "rev-parse HEAD^0" complained that
it is dangling symref, even though "rev-parse HEAD" didn't.
+ * "git show :no-such-name" tried to access the index without bounds
+ check, leading to a potential segfault.
+
* Message from "git cherry-pick" was harder to read and use than necessary
when it stopped due to conflicting changes.
+ * We referred to ".git/refs/" throughout the documentation when we
+ meant to talk about abstract notion of "ref namespace". Because
+ people's repositories often have packed refs these days, this was
+ confusing.
+
* "git diff --output=/path/that/cannot/be/written" did not correctly
error out.
option was propagated to "git stash drop" that is internally run at the
end.
---
-exec >/var/tmp/1
-echo O=$(git describe)
-O=v1.7.0-11-g354d9f8
-git shortlog $O..
+And other minor fixes and documentation updates.