1- Git v1.9 Release Notes
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1+ Git v1.9.0 Release Notes
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33
44Backward compatibility notes
55----------------------------
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are
2727finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).
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2929
30- Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
31- ------------------------------------------
30+ Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0.0 )
31+ --------------------------------------------
3232
3333When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
3434traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
@@ -220,11 +220,9 @@ for details).
220220 * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git
221221 diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match
222222 some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved.
223- (merge e4ddb05 as/tree-walk-fix-aggressive-short-cut later to maint).
224223
225224 * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when
226225 the command was reimplemented in C.
227- (merge b861e23 sb/repack-in-c later to maint).
228226
229227 * An earlier update in v1.8.4.x to "git rev-list --objects" with
230228 negative ref had a performance regression.
@@ -233,27 +231,22 @@ for details).
233231 * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where
234232 /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path
235233 (e.g. Fedora rawhide).
236- (merge 01645b7 rk/send-email-ssl-cert later to maint).
237234
238235 * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation
239236 and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters,
240237 e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed.
241- (merge 9892d5d jk/interpret-branch-name-fix later to maint).
242238
243239 * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref
244240 directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different
245241 validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the
246242 client side's validation to allow such a ref.
247- (merge 4c22408 jk/allow-fetch-onelevel-refname later to maint).
248243
249244 * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits
250245 reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent
251246 bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series.
252- (merge a743528 jc/revision-range-unpeel later to maint).
253247
254248 * documentations to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option because
255249 it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge".
256- (merge 08f19cf jc/maint-pull-docfix later to maint).
257250
258251 * "git diff A B submod" and "git diff A B submod/" ought to have done
259252 the same for a submodule "submod", but didn't.
@@ -268,48 +261,39 @@ for details).
268261
269262 * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote
270263 the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace.
271- (merge 2a07e43 ow/stash-with-ifs later to maint).
272264
273265 * The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
274266 a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
275267 names.
276- (merge 82246b7 nd/daemon-informative-errors-typofix later to maint).
277268
278269 * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit for the number of
279270 parents of an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but
280271 there was.
281- (merge e228c17 js/lift-parent-count-limit later to maint).
282272
283273 * The basic test used to leave unnecessary trash directories in the
284274 t/ directory.
285275 (merge 738a8be jk/test-framework-updates later to maint).
286276
287277 * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal
288278 result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself.
289- (merge 8f29299 bm/merge-base-octopus-dedup later to maint).
290279
291280 * A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a
292281 new "gc" process from starting, but it didn't.
293- (merge ed7eda8 km/gc-eperm later to maint).
294282
295283 * An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak.
296- (merge e1c1a32 jk/credential-plug-leak later to maint).
297284
298285 * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
299286 used to emit an error.
300- (merge 64ed07c nd/add-empty-fix later to maint).
301287
302288 * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag
303289 nicely.
304- (merge 5e1361c bc/log-decoration later to maint).
305290
306291 * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
307292 keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
308293 cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a
309294 rough estimate of how many are available and we do not even attempt
310295 to use up all available file descriptors ourselves, it is nicer to
311296 fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.
312- (merge 491a8de jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback later to maint).
313297
314298 * read_sha1_file(), that is the workhorse to read the contents given
315299 an object name, honoured object replacements, but there was no
@@ -320,53 +304,42 @@ for details).
320304
321305 * "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
322306 behave very well.
323- (merge 6554dfa jk/cat-file-regression-fix later to maint).
324307
325308 * "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
326309 disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
327310 the same way.
328- (merge 62f162f jk/rev-parse-double-dashes later to maint).
329311
330312 * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
331313 out, but it didn't.
332- (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint).
333314
334315 * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been
335316 retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that
336317 corrupts system error messages in non-C locales.
337318
338319 * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
339320 layer in "git send-email".
340- (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint).
341321
342322 * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
343323 editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
344324 control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
345325 first modified path was a submodule.
346- (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint).
347326
348327 * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored.
349328 Diagnose it as an error.
350- (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint).
351329
352330 * Remote repository URLs expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
353331 parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
354332 to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.
355- (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint).
356333
357334 * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
358335 command line parser.
359- (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint).
360336
361337 * "git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of
362338 the named object.
363- (merge 4ef8d1d sb/sha1-loose-object-info-check-existence later to maint).
364339
365340 * "git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write
366341 a tree with an 0{40} object in it.
367- (merge 77b43ca jk/two-way-merge-corner-case-fix later to maint).
368342
369343 * Two processes creating loose objects at the same time could have
370344 failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started
371345 with the same byte value, due to a race condition.
372- (merge b2476a6 jh/loose-object-dirs-creation-race later to maint).
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