@ -4,21 +4,24 @@ Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes
@@ -4,21 +4,24 @@ Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes
Fixes since v1.8.4
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* 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
@@ -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.
Jonathan Nieder
11 years ago