| Git v1.8.5.5 Release Notes | |
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| Fixes since v1.8.5.4 | |
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| * 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. |