1 GIT v1.6.3.2 Release Notes
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7 * A few codepaths picked up the first few bytes from an sha1[] by
8 casting the (char *) pointer to (int *); GCC 4.4 did not like this,
9 and aborted compilation.
11 * Some unlink(2) failures went undiagnosed.
13 * The "recursive" merge strategy misbehaved when faced rename/delete
14 conflicts while coming up with an intermediate merge base.
16 * The low-level merge algorithm did not handle a degenerate case of
17 merging a file with itself using itself as the common ancestor
18 gracefully. It should produce the file itself, but instead
19 produced an empty result.
21 * GIT_TRACE mechanism segfaulted when tracing a shell-quoted aliases.
23 * OpenBSD also uses st_ctimspec in "struct stat", instead of "st_ctim".
25 * With NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS, "make install" can be told not to
26 create hardlinks between $(gitexecdir)/git-$builtin_commands and
29 * command completion code in bash did not reliably detect that we are
32 * "git add ." in an empty directory complained that pathspec "." did not
33 match anything, which may be technically correct, but not useful. We
34 silently make it a no-op now.
36 * "git add -p" (and "patch" action in "git add -i") was broken when
37 the first hunk that adds a line at the top was split into two and
38 both halves are marked to be used.
40 * "git blame path" misbehaved at the commit where path became file
41 from a directory with some files in it.
43 * "git for-each-ref" had a segfaulting bug when dealing with a tag object
44 created by an ancient git.
46 * "git format-patch -k" still added patch numbers if format.numbered
47 configuration was set.
49 * "git grep --color ''" did not terminate. The command also had
50 subtle bugs with its -w option.
52 * http-push had a small use-after-free bug.
54 * "git push" was converting OFS_DELTA pack representation into less
55 efficient REF_DELTA representation unconditionally upon transfer,
56 making the transferred data unnecessarily larger.
58 * "git remote show origin" segfaulted when origin was still empty.
60 Many other general usability updates around help text, diagnostic messages
61 and documentation are included as well.