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Git v1.8.3 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
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When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
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traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
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to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
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over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple"
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semantics that pushes the current branch to the branch with the same
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name, only when the current branch is set to integrate with that
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remote branch. There is a user preference configuration variable
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"push.default" to change this. If you are an old-timer who is used
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to the "matching" semantics, you can set it to "matching" to keep the
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traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early,
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you can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0.
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When "git add -u" and "git add -A", that does not specify what paths
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to add on the command line is run from inside a subdirectory, these
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commands will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency
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with "git commit -a" and other commands. Because there will be no
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mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is
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important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec)
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updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start
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training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean
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it before Git 2.0 comes.
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Updates since v1.8.2
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
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a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it.
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An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
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issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
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* "git status" suggests users to look into using--untracked=no option
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when it takes too long.
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* "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
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ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
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server side supports this feature.
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* "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
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packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
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* A new read-only credential helper (in contrib/) to interact with
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the .netrc/.authinfo files has been added.
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* "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system.
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Foreign Interface
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Updates for building under msvc.
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* A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
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hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
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repeatedly growing and rehashing.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.8.2
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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* Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
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command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
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(merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint).
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* The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
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was described poorly.
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(merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint).
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* The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
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(merge 0414acc wk/doc-pre-rebase later to maint).
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* The v4 index format was not documented.
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(merge 647d879 nd/doc-index-format later to maint).
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* The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
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pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.
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(merge 5229149 gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern later to maint).
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* Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in
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their system header (e.g. z/OS).
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(merge 3b130ade dm/ni-maxhost-may-be-missing later to maint).
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* Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
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documentation.
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(merge 21b6e4f tk/doc-filter-branch later to maint).
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* "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a
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bundle that does not have any prerequisites.
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(merge a02ffe0 lf/bundle-verify-list-prereqs later to maint).
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* In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
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to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
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CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
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in-tree users use.
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(merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint).
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* "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
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* "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an
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informational message when the translated version of it was too
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long.
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(merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint).
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* 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
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$msg already ended with one.
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(merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint).
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* The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
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Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
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sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
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(merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint).
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* perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
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out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
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(merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint).
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* "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
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parameters and issue errors in many cases.
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(merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint).
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* Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
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or en/US locale.
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(merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint).
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* Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
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most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
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user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
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spellings of UTF-8.
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(merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint).
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* When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
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size of the file.
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(merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint).
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* "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
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filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
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sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
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numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
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alphabetical order.
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(merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint).
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* "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
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acccumulate the prefix paths.
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(merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint).
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