1.8.0.1

Git v1.8.0.1 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.8.0 ------------------

• The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on variable names that was not checked consistently.

• The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed "echo" to interpret "a" as if it were a C-string asking for a BEL output.

• "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.

• "git log -F -E --grep=’<ere>’" failed to use the given <ere> pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the string literally.

• "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read "<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was nonsense.

• A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM instead.

• Earlier we fixed documentation to hyphenate "remote-tracking branch" to clarify that these are not a remote entity, but unhyphenated spelling snuck in to a few places since then.

• "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.

• The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the repository-layout docs.

• Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. A workaround has been added for this.

• Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.

• "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking for changes.

• Bash completion script (in contrib/) did not correctly complete a lazy "git checkout $name_of_remote_tracking_branch_that_is_unique" command line.

• RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.

• "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").

• "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say "Switched to a new branch ’foo’" like other cases.

Also contains other minor fixes and documentation updates.