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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 |
3 files changed, 54 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt index 0dc37dc..6cde07b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt @@ -4,15 +4,56 @@ Git 1.8.1.1 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.1 ------------------ + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. + + * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and + finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error + message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does + not exist there" and moving on. + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the authentication is done by certificate identity. + * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they + attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn + launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that + signal and die. We ignore these signals now. + + * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was + reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was + spawned by us, with or without a shell in between. + * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. + * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing + excess trailing blank lines in some corner cases. + + * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a + way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. + + * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it + failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. + This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. + + * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec + with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match + the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the + real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated + anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch. + + * The "log --graph" codepath fell into infinite loop in some + corner cases. + + * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git + commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit + status of the hook. + * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that created new refs had a race that can lose new ones. @@ -20,10 +61,20 @@ Fixes since v1.8.1 whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed to add a newline after such a line. + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and + GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. + + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new + activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely + nothing in it early, which was not very useful. + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely nothing in it early, which was not very useful. + * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran + "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. + * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when PYTHON_PATH changed. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 5bb5cc8..2764912 100644 --- 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: -* link:v1.8.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1] +* link:v1.8.1.1/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/1.8.1.1.txt[1.8.1.1], link:RelNotes/1.8.1.txt[1.8.1]. * link:v1.8.0.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.0.3] diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 72e37c9..c572e8d 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.8.1 +DEF_VER=v1.8.1.1 LF=' ' |