1.5.1.1

GIT v1.5.1.1 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.5.1 ------------------

• Documentation updates

• The --left-right option of rev-list and friends is documented.

• The documentation for cvsimport has been majorly improved.

• "git-show-ref --exclude-existing" was documented.

• Bugfixes

• The implementation of -p option in "git cvsexportcommit" had the meaning of -C (context reduction) option wrong, and loosened the context requirements when it was told to be strict.

• "git cvsserver" did not behave like the real cvsserver when client side removed a file from the working tree without doing anything else on the path. In such a case, it should restore it from the checked out revision.

• "git fsck" issued an alarming error message on detached HEAD. It is not an error since at least 1.5.0.

• "git send-email" produced of References header of unbounded length; fixed this with line-folding.

• "git archive" to download from remote site should not require you to be in a git repository, but it incorrectly did.

• "git apply" ignored -p<n> for "diff --git" formatted patches.

• "git rerere" recorded a conflict that had one side empty (the other side adds) incorrectly; this made merging in the other direction fail to use previously recorded resolution.

• t4200 test was broken where "wc -l" pads its output with spaces.

• "git branch -m old new" to rename branch did not work without a configuration file in ".git/config".

• The sample hook for notification e-mail was misnamed.

• gitweb did not show type-changing patch correctly in the blobdiff view.

• git-svn did not error out with incorrect command line options.

• git-svn fell into an infinite loop when insanely long commit message was found.

• git-svn dcommit and rebase was confused by patches that were merged from another branch that is managed by git-svn.

• git-svn used to get confused when globbing remote branch/tag spec (e.g. "branches = proj/branches/:refs/remotes/origin/") is used and there was a plain file that matched the glob.