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Update draft release notes for 1.6.3.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 16 years ago
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@ -8,44 +8,56 @@ Fixes since v1.6.3.1
casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this, casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
and aborted compilation. and aborted compilation.


* http-push had a small use-after-free bug.

* command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
in a bare repository.

* "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
created by an ancient git.

* Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed. * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.


* The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base. conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.


* The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead
produced an empty result.

* GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases. * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.


* OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".

* With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
$(bindir)/git.

* command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
in a bare repository.

* "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We
silently make it a no-op now. silently make it a no-op now.


* "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
both halves are marked to be used.

* "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
created by an ancient git.

* "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
configuration was set. configuration was set.


* OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim". * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate.


* With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
$(bindir)/git.


* "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer, efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
making the transferred data unnecessarily larger. making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.


* "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.

Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
and documentation are included as well. and documentation are included as well.


--- ---
exec >/var/tmp/1 exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.6.3.1-51-g2a1feb9 O=v1.6.3.1-68-g456cb4c
echo O=$(git describe maint) echo O=$(git describe maint)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint git shortlog --no-merges $O..maint


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