diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt index e548a59824..84ba827b1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes Fixes since v1.7.11.5 --------------------- -This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification. +This consists primarily of documentation updates and low-impact code +clarification and bugfixes. - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive documentation. @@ -32,3 +33,30 @@ This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification. - "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by getpwent(3). + + - The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were + inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). + + - When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + + - When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a + message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to + the standard output, breaking the communication protocol. + + - "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the + working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have + name 0{40} recorded in a tree. + + - "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the + header correctly, and lost "_" from strings. + + - When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a + revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we + used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message + has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command + line. + + - "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with + SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.