1.8.5.3

Git v1.8.5.3 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.8.5.2 --------------------

• The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option names.

• A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a new "gc" process from starting.

• An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak to the credential subsystem.

• "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error out, but it didn’t.

• "git rev-parse <revs> — <paths>" did not implement the usual disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in the same way.

• "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not behave very well.

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.