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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt index 806545a..3aa25a2 100644 --- 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 ------------------ - * 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. - * "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. - * 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 @@ -43,8 +46,26 @@ Fixes since v1.8.4 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. |