Git 1.8.4.1

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt
index 806545aafdefa7b860399af53d097388c970ffaf..3aa25a274379dca115034bfd7201e97f72dcc651 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt
@@ -4,21 +4,24 @@ Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes
 Fixes since v1.8.4
 ------------------
 
 Fixes since v1.8.4
 ------------------
 

- * Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot
-   grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and
-   completion code started to use recently.  The completion and
-   prompt scripts have been adjusted to work better with these old
-   versions of bash.
-
- * "git rebase -i" had a minor bug (the same could be in other
-   programs, as the root cause is pretty generic) where the code
-   feeds a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and expects it
+ * Some old versions of bash do not grok some constructs like
+   'printf -v varname' which the prompt and completion code started
+   to use recently.  The completion and prompt scripts have been
+   adjusted to work better with these old versions of bash.
+
+ * In FreeBSD's and NetBSD's "sh", a return in a dot script in a
+   function returns from the function, not only in the dot script,
+   breaking "git rebase" on these platforms (regression introduced
+   in 1.8.4-rc1).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" and other scripted commands were feeding a
+   random, data dependant error message to 'echo' and expecting it

    to come out literally.
 
    to come out literally.
 

- * "submodule.<name>.path" variable mistakenly set to the empty
+ * Setting the "submodule.<name>.path" variable to the empty

    "true" caused the configuration parser to segfault.
 
    "true" caused the configuration parser to segfault.
 

- * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange,
+ * Output from "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" looked strange

    because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that
    touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths
    outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has
    because comparison was done with the previous ancestor that
    touched the specified <pathspec>, causing the patches for paths
    outside the pathspec to show more than the single commit has


@@ -43,8 +46,26 @@ Fixes since v1.8.4
    shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow
    tags.
 
    shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow
    tags.
 

- * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros,
-   the configuration parser did not compile.
+ * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon
+   failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error
+   string from a wrong place.
+
+ * A call to xread() was used without a loop to cope with short
+   read in the codepath to stream large blobs to a pack.
+
+ * On platforms with fgetc() and friends defined as macros, the
+   configuration parser did not compile.
+
+ * New versions of MediaWiki introduced a new API for returning
+   more than 500 results in response to a query, which would cause
+   the MediaWiki remote helper to go into an infinite loop.
+
+ * Subversion's serf access method (the only one available in
+   Subversion 1.8) for http and https URLs in skelta mode tells its
+   caller to open multiple files at a time, which made "git svn
+   fetch" complain that "Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already
+   in use" instead of fetching.
+

 
 Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
 updates, updates to the test suite, etc.
 
 Also contains a handful of trivial code clean-ups, documentation
 updates, updates to the test suite, etc.

diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index dca11cc96e7f0233fbfa4191cbdd3bb50f91f33e..5b83e0ab98b1da06c749b016f231584e644a73c0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 

-* link:v1.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4]
+* link:v1.8.4.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.4.1]

 
 * release notes for
 
 * release notes for

+  link:RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt[1.8.4.1],

   link:RelNotes/1.8.4.txt[1.8.4].
 
 * link:v1.8.3.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.4]
   link:RelNotes/1.8.4.txt[1.8.4].
 
 * link:v1.8.3.4/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3.4]

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 06026eaed7b4eadca91f1e8cd221cfda86a8fd87..b4147d6db58133bb88d9011d1153410cf9f419ca 100755 (executable)
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE

-DEF_VER=v1.8.4
+DEF_VER=v1.8.4.1

 
 LF='
 '
 
 LF='
 '