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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt index 7bcf371c5..43c7b682a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. * The build procedure is aware of MirBSD now. + * Various "git p4", "git svn" and "gitk" updates. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -215,6 +217,50 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too agrresive and failed to match + some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved. + (merge e4ddb05 as/tree-walk-fix-aggressive-short-cut later to maint). + + * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when + the command was reimplemented in C. + (merge b861e23 sb/repack-in-c later to maint). + + * An earlier update in v1.8.4.x to "git rev-list --objects" with + negative ref had performance regression. + (merge 200abe7 jk/mark-edges-uninteresting later to maint). + + * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists, but it cannot used as SSL_ca_path + (e.g. Fedora rawhide). + (merge 01645b7 rk/send-email-ssl-cert later to maint). + + * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation + and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters, + e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed. + (merge 9892d5d jk/interpret-branch-name-fix later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge 4c22408 jk/allow-fetch-onelevel-refname later to maint). + + * "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. + (merge a743528 jc/revision-range-unpeel later to maint). + + * documentations to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option because + it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". + (merge 08f19cf jc/maint-pull-docfix later to maint). + + * "git diff A B submod" and "git diff A B submod/" ought to have done + the same for a submodule "submod", but didn't. + + * "git clone $origin foo\bar\baz" on Windows failed to create the + leading directories (i.e. a moral-equivalent of "mkdir -p"). + * "submodule.*.update=checkout", when propagated from .gitmodules to .git/config, turned into a "submodule.*.update=none", which did not make much sense. diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index e66a5abb0..35031650f 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v1.9-rc0 +DEF_VER=v1.9-rc1 LF=' ' |