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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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--------------------
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow
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is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the
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"origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the
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branch.*.remote) configuration variables.
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* "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a
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revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect
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session.
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* The handing by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms
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of errorneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
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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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* In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
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the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
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message with the final log message contents after applymsg hook
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munges it.
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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 status" shows a bit more information to "git status" during a
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rebase/bisect session.
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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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* There was no Porcelain way to say "I no longer am interested in
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this submodule", once you express your interest in a submodule with
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"submodule init". "submodule deinit" is the way to do so.
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* "git pull --rebase" learned to pass "-v/-q" options to underlying
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"git rebase".
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* The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant
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annotated tags when pushing branches out.
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* "git merge" and "git pull" can optionally be told to inspect and
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reject when merging a commit that does not carry a trusted GPG
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signature.
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* "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the
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order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually
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shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend
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expects.
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* "show/log" now honors gpg.program configuration just like other
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parts of the code that use GnuPG.
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* "git log" that shows the difference between the parent and the
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child has been optimized somewhat.
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* "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
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being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
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same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
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tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
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in the working tree.
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* There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
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outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
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making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
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can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Updates for building under msvc.
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* The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for
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shared repositories have been simplified.
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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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* The API to walk reflog entries from the latest to older, which was
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necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome
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to use correctly and also inefficient.
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* Codepaths that inspect log-message-to-be and decide when to add a
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new Signed-off-by line in various commands have been consolidated.
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* The pkt-line API, implementation and its callers have been cleaned
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up to make them more robust.
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* Cygwin port has a faster-but-lying lstat(2) emulation whose
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incorrectness does not matter in practice except for a few
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codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath
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that needs to use a more correct one.
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* "git checkout" had repeated pathspec matches on the same paths,
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which have been consolidated. Also a bug in "git checkout dir/"
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that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed.
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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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* When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
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failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the
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final clean-up procedure.
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(merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint).
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* "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
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"git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
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not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code
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notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
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based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears
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in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags.
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(merge a38d3d7 jc/merge-tag-object later to maint).
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* Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
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trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
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(merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
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* "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
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longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
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(merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
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* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
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when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
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(merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint).
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* "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support
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"--option=value" form.
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(merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).
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* "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta
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depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
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(merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
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* "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
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of mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers.
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(merge 8f82aad nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes later to maint).
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* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
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platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
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hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
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* Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
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correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
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* Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
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(merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).
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* "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
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instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
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* "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
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creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
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* "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4
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client was not its real path.
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(merge bbd8486 pw/p4-symlinked-root later to maint).
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* "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
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of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
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archive back in such a case.
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* When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
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it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
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the middle of it.
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* An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
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it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
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* In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
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correct objects.
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* The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
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files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
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common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
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* The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
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"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
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base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
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to those that match the given pattern.
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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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* The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
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was described poorly.
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* The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
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* The v4 index format was not documented.
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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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* 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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* Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch"
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documentation.
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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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* 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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* "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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* '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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* 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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* 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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* "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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* Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
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or en/US locale.
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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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* When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
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size of the file.
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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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* "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
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acccumulate the prefix paths.
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