| GIT v1.6.4.1 Release Notes | |
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| Fixes since v1.6.4 | |
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| * An unquoted value in the configuration file, when it contains more than | |
| one whitespaces in a row, got them replaced with a single space. | |
| * "git am" used to accept a single piece of e-mail per file (not a mbox) | |
| as its input, but multiple input format support in v1.6.4 broke it. | |
| Apparently many people have been depending on this feature. | |
| * The short help text for "git filter-branch" command was a single long | |
| line, wrapped by terminals, and was hard to read. | |
| * The "recursive" strategy of "git merge" segfaulted when a merge has | |
| more than one merge-bases, and merging of these merge-bases involves | |
| a rename/rename or a rename/add conflict. | |
| * "git pull --rebase" did not use the right fork point when the | |
| repository has already fetched from the upstream that rewinds the | |
| branch it is based on in an earlier fetch. | |
| * Explain the concept of fast-forward more fully in "git push" | |
| documentation, and hint to refer to it from an error message when the | |
| command refuses an update to protect the user. | |
| * The default value for pack.deltacachesize, used by "git repack", is now | |
| 256M, instead of unbounded. Otherwise a repack of a moderately sized | |
| repository would needlessly eat into swap. | |
| * Document how "git repack" (hence "git gc") interacts with a repository | |
| that borrows its objects from other repositories (e.g. ones created by | |
| "git clone -s"). | |
| * "git show" on an annotated tag lacked a delimiting blank line between | |
| the tag itself and the contents of the object it tags. | |
| * "git verify-pack -v" erroneously reported number of objects with too | |
| deep delta depths as "chain length 0" objects. | |
| * Long names of authors and committers outside US-ASCII were sometimes | |
| incorrectly shown in "gitweb". | |
| Other minor documentation updates are included. |