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| 1 | +GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes |
| 2 | +========================== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Fixes since v1.6.4 |
| 5 | +------------------ |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | + * An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than |
| 8 | + one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + * "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox) |
| 11 | + as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it. |
| 12 | + Apparently many people have been depending on this feature. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + * The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long |
| 15 | + line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | + * The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has |
| 18 | + more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves |
| 19 | + a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | + * "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the |
| 22 | + repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the |
| 23 | + branch it is based on in an earlier fetch. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | + * Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push" |
| 26 | + documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the |
| 27 | + command refuses an update to protect the user. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | + * The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now |
| 30 | + 256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized |
| 31 | + repository would needlessly eat into swap. |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | + * Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository |
| 34 | + that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by |
| 35 | + "git clone -s"). |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | + * "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between |
| 38 | + the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + * "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too |
| 41 | + deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | + * Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes |
| 44 | + incorrectly shown in "gitweb". |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +Other minor documentation updates are included. |
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