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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7d8fb85e1b49 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +GIT v1.6.0.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.6.0.1 +-------------------- + +* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were + broken in 1.6.0.1. + +* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not + work well. + +* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a + better example, instead of the "git-foo" form (which is an acceptable + form if you have "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" in your script) + +* Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used + with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings. + +* Some systems need to use compatibility fnmatch and regex libraries + independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to + allow this. + + +* "git apply --unidiff-zero" incorrectly applied a -U0 patch that inserts + a new line before the second line. + +* "git blame -c" did not exactly work like "git annotate" when range + boundaries are involved. + +* "git checkout file" when file is still unmerged checked out contents from + a random high order stage, which was confusing. + +* "git clone $there $here/" with extra trailing slashes after explicit + local directory name $here did not work as expected. + +* "git diff" on tracked contents with CRLF line endings did not drive "less" + intelligently when showing added or removed lines. + +* "git diff --dirstat -M" did not add changes in subdirectories up + correctly for renamed paths. + +* "git diff --cumulative" did not imply "--dirstat". + +* "git for-each-ref refs/heads/" did not work as expected. + +* "git gui" allowed users to feed patch without any context to be applied. + +* "git gui" botched parsing "diff" output when a line that begins with two + dashes and a space gets removed or a line that begins with two pluses + and a space gets added. + +* "git gui" translation updates and i18n fixes. + +* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while completing + a thin pack. + +* "git log -i --grep=pattern" did not ignore case; neither "git log -E + --grep=pattern" triggered extended regexp. + +* "git log --pretty="%ad" --date=short" did not use short format when + showing the timestamp. + +* "git log --author=author" match incorrectly matched with the + timestamp part of "author " line in commit objects. + +* "git log -F --author=author" did not work at all. + +* Build procedure for "git shell" that used stub versions of some + functions and globals was not understood by linkers on some platforms. + +* "git stash" was fooled by a stat-dirty but otherwise unmodified paths + and refused to work until the user refreshed the index. + +* "git svn" was broken on Perl before 5.8 with recent fixes to reduce + use of temporary files. + +* "git verify-pack -v" did not work correctly when given more than one + packfile. + +Also contains many documentation updates. |