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Git v1.8.0 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes
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In the next major release (not *this* one), we will change the
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behavior of the "git push" command.
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When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
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traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
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to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
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over there). We will use the "simple" semantics that pushes the
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current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current
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branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user
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preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this, and
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"git push" will warn about the upcoming change until you set this
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variable in this release.
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"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
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relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
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been introduced with a saner order of arguments.
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Updates since v1.7.12
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---------------------
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
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the logged-in user has been added.
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* An initial port to HP NonStop.
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* A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been
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added.
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* When "git am" sanitizes the "Subject:" line, we strip the prefix from
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"Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
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the even less common "RE: subject" intact. Now we strip that too.
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* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
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but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
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integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly
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unlikely what the user meant. The option is deprecated; use the
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new "--set-upstream-to" (with a short-and-sweet "-u") option
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instead.
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* "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
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allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
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* After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking
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help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to
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be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command
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leaves the sign-off line in the log template.
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* "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
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external command to decline service based on the client address,
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repository path, etc.
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* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
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a temporary copy of the working tree when available.
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* "git grep" learned to use a non-standard pattern type by default if
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a configuration variable tells it to.
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* Accumulated updates to "git gui" has been merged.
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* "git log -g" learned the "--grep-reflog=<pattern>" option to limit
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its output to commits with a reflog message that matches the given
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pattern.
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* "git merge-base" learned the "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is
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an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.
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* "git mergetool" now allows users to override the actual command used
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with the mergetool.$name.cmd configuration variable even for built-in
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mergetool backends.
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* "git rebase -i" learned the "--edit-todo" option to open an editor
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to edit the instruction sheet.
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Foreign Interface
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* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
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* "git p4" learned the "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when
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encountering a conflict during "p4 submit".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
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buggy regexp library, but it was easy for people to keep using their
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platform regexp by mistake. A new test has been added to check this.
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* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
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simplified.
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* The test suite is run under MALLOC_CHECK_ when running with a glibc
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that supports the feature.
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* The documentation in the TeXinfo format was using indented output
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for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
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monospace.
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* Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
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reject parameters with trailing slash has been introduced.
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* Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has
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been added.
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* The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and
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defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an
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appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder.
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The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis
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when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a
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good name for a branch).
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* Many internal uses of a "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see
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if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the
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full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to
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use less expensive checks.
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* The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when
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we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted
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from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree".
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* Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have
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been marked for translation.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.7.12
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-------------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
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maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
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to them for details).
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* The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
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leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
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fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
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to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
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ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
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* When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
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them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
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files that we cannot read.
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* When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..."
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header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly.
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* "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream
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(e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not
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honored correctly.
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* "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
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"MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
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confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
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* Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
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blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
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more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
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branch that is being merged.
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* It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is
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unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.
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* Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
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localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
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branches was counting in bytes, not in display columns.
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* "git cherry-pick A C B" used to replay changes in A and then B and
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then C if these three commits had committer timestamps in that
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order, which is not what the user who said "A C B" naturally
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expects.
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* A repository created with "git clone --single" had its fetch
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refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the
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subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating
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the whole point of specifying "only this branch".
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* Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
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the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
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how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first
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line" to "title".
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* "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it
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inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which
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caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle.
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* Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of
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lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having
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to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language
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is English, and this change has been reverted.
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* "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
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"--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
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issue existed with "--tags", but the combination "--all --tags" makes
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much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
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* "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server
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misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the
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configuration in general, and has been reverted.
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* "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which
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is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on
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its Accept-Encoding header.
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* "git fetch" over the dumb-http revision walker could segfault when
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curl's multi interface was used.
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* "git gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered
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even under the "--quiet" option.
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* After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
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references" nor "Reload" updated what is shown as the
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contents of it when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
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* "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that
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mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with
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--author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or
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B (or both) instead.
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* The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" was ignored
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for binary files.
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* "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used
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together, misdetected branches.
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* "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give
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progress output while processing objects it received to the puser
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when run over the smart-http protocol.
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* When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in
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the "git rebase -i" instruction sheet you were told that 'rebase' is not a
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git subcommand from "git rebase --continue".
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* The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
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"rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
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* The interactive prompt that "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
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asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
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guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
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tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
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please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
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certainly not what the user meant.
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* "git show --format='%ci'" did not give the timestamp correctly for
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commits created without human readable name on the "committer" line.
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* "git show --quiet" ought to be a synonym for "git show -s", but
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wasn't.
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* "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown
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subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint
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that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz".
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* "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but
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"git commit" didn't.
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* "gitweb" did not give the correct committer timezone in its feed
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output due to a typo.
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