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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..5902a85a7861 --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +GIT v1.5.6.2 Release Notes +========================== + +Futureproof +----------- + + * "git-shell" accepts requests without a dash between "git" and + subcommand name (e.g. "git upload-pack") which the newer client will + start to make sometime in the future. + +Fixes since v1.5.6.1 +-------------------- + +* "git clone" from a remote that is named with url.insteadOf setting in + $HOME/.gitconfig did not work well. + +* "git describe --long --tags" segfaulted when the described revision was + tagged with a lightweight tag. + +* "git diff --check" did not report the result via its exit status + reliably. + +* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now + it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking + branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest + pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set + of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'. + +* "git reset file" should mean the same thing as "git reset HEAD file", + but we required disambiguating -- even when "file" is not ambiguous. + +* "git show" segfaulted when an annotated tag that points at another + annotated tag was given to it. + +* Optimization for a large import via "git-svn" introduced in v1.5.6 had a + serious memory and temporary file leak, which made it unusable for + moderately large import. + +* "git-svn" mangled remote nickname used in the configuration file + unnecessarily. |