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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9191ce948fc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Git v1.8.5.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.4 +-------------------- + + * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match + some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved. + + * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when + the command was reimplemented in C. + + * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path + (e.g. Fedora rawhide). + + * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation + and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters, + e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed. + + * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref + directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different + validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the + client side's validation to allow such a ref. + + * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits + reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent + bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series. + + * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal + result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself. + + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. |