The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.1.1 is now available at
the usual places. This contains many bugfixes that have been
cooking on the 'master' branch since v1.8.1 was released.
The release tarballs are found at:
http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list
and their SHA-1 checksums are:
44b90aab937b0e0dbb0661eb5ec4ca6182e60854 git-1.8.1.1.tar.gz
952e0950d40bb141357be88a63f4cbb58258a4f5 git-htmldocs-1.8.1.1.tar.gz
5089613a434ba09c94f6694d546c246838377760 git-manpages-1.8.1.1.tar.gz
Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.1.1
tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
Git 1.8.1.1 Release Notes
=========================
Fixes since v1.8.1
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* The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
exclude mechanism does.
* When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
not exist there" and moving on.
* After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
* http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the
authentication is done by certificate identity.
* The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that
signal and die. We ignore these signals now.
* A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines in some corner cases.
* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
* When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
* "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated
anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch.
* The "log --graph" codepath fell into infinite loop in some
corner cases.
* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.
* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
created new refs had a race that can lose new ones.
* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
to add a newline after such a line.
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
* "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
* "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
* Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when
PYTHON_PATH changed.
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
* Portability issues in many self-test scripts have been addressed.
Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.
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Changes since v1.8.1 are as follows:
Aaron Schrab (1):
Use longer alias names in subdirectory tests
Adam Spiers (1):
api-allocation-growing.txt: encourage better variable naming
Antoine Pelisse (1):
merge: Honor prepare-commit-msg return code
Christian Couder (1):
Makefile: detect when PYTHON_PATH changes
Jean-Noël AVILA (1):
Add directory pattern matching to attributes
Jeff King (9):
run-command: drop silent_exec_failure arg from wait_or_whine
launch_editor: refactor to use start/finish_command
run-command: do not warn about child death from terminal
launch_editor: propagate signals from editor to git
completion: complete refs for "git commit -c"
refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_ref
tests: turn on test-lint by default
fix compilation with NO_PTHREADS
run-command: encode signal death as a positive integer
Jens Lehmann (1):
clone: support atomic operation with --separate-git-dir
John Keeping (4):
git-fast-import(1): remove duplicate '--done' option
git-shortlog(1): document behaviour of zero-width wrap
git-fast-import(1): combine documentation of --[no-]relative-marks
git-fast-import(1): reorganise options
Jonathan Nieder (6):
config, gitignore: failure to access with ENOTDIR is ok
config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors
doc: advertise GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
config: exit on error accessing any config file
build: do not automatically reconfigure unless configure.ac changed
docs: manpage XML depends on asciidoc.conf
Junio C Hamano (20):
apply.c:update_pre_post_images(): the preimage can be truncated
format_commit_message(): simplify calls to logmsg_reencode()
sh-setup: work around "unset IFS" bug in some shells
fetch: ignore wildcarded refspecs that update local symbolic refs
xmkstemp(): avoid showing truncated template more carefully
t0200: "locale" may not exist
t9502: do not assume GNU tar
t4014: fix arguments to grep
t3600: Avoid "cp -a", which is a GNUism
t9020: use configured Python to run the test helper
compat/fnmatch: update old-style definition to ANSI
t9200: let "cvs init" create the test repository
merge --no-edit: do not credit people involved in the side branch
SubmittingPatches: who am I and who cares?
SubmittingPatches: mention subsystems with dedicated repositories
Documentation: full-ness of a bundle is significant for cloning
SubmittingPatches: remove overlong checklist
SubmittingPatches: give list and maintainer addresses
Prepare for 1.8.1.1
Git 1.8.1.1
Kirill Brilliantov (1):
Documentation: correct example restore from bundle
Mark Levedahl (1):
Makefile: add comment on CYGWIN_V15_WIN32API
Matthew Daley (1):
gitweb: Sort projects with undefined ages last
Max Horn (1):
configure.ac: fix pthreads detection on Mac OS X
Michael Schubert (2):
git-subtree: ignore git-subtree executable
git-subtree: fix typo in manpage
Michał Kiedrowicz (1):
graph.c: infinite loop in git whatchanged --graph -m
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (4):
cache-tree: remove dead i-t-a code in verify_cache()
cache-tree: replace "for" loops in update_one with "while" loops
cache-tree: fix writing cache-tree when CE_REMOVE is present
cache-tree: invalidate i-t-a paths after generating trees
Orgad Shaneh (1):
gitweb: fix error in sanitize when highlight is enabled
Paul Fox (1):
launch_editor: ignore terminal signals while editor has control
Rene Bredlau (1):
http.c: Avoid username prompt for certifcate credentials
René Scharfe (2):
archive-tar: split long paths more carefully
t1402: work around shell quoting issue on NetBSD
Sebastian Schuberth (1):
nedmalloc: Fix a compile warning (exposed as error) with GCC 4.7.2
Steffen Prohaska (2):
shortlog: fix wrapping lines of wraplen
strbuf_add_wrapped*(): Remove unused return value
Sven Strickroth (3):
git-svn, perl/Git.pm: add central method for prompting passwords
perl/Git.pm: Honor SSH_ASKPASS as fallback if GIT_ASKPASS is not set
git-svn, perl/Git.pm: extend and use Git->prompt method for querying users
Thomas Ackermann (1):
Remove Documentation/pt_BR/gittutorial.txt
Torsten Bögershausen (2):
t9810: Do not use sed -i
t9020: which is not portable
W. Trevor King (1):
remote-hg: Fix biridectionality -> bidirectionality typos
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