From Junio C Hamano <> Subject [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.0.1 Date Sun, 25 Nov 2012 20:54:31 -0800 The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.0.1 is now available at

the usual places.



The release tarballs are found at:



http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list



and their SHA-1 checksums are:



4e7492f7558f3ba2a450c43efa7de3b0b1adc6c1 git-1.8.0.1.tar.gz

6c0e64d53a8543447f595e3bac4966ba9257e783 git-htmldocs-1.8.0.1.tar.gz

cb26eea4ebe53b41cbc5c5f430499f7d76605414 git-manpages-1.8.0.1.tar.gz



Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.0.1

tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:



url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git

url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/

url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git

url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core

url = https://github.com/gitster/git



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.



----------------------------------------------------------------



Changes since v1.8.0 are as follows:



Andreas Schwab (1):

commit: fixup misplacement of --no-post-rewrite description



Ben Walton (1):

Remove the hard coded length limit on variable names in config files



Carlos Martín Nieto (1):

config: don't segfault when given --path with a missing value



David Aguilar (1):

mergetools/p4merge: Handle "/dev/null"



Jan H. Schönherr (7):

utf8: fix off-by-one wrapping of text

format-patch: do not wrap non-rfc2047 headers too early

format-patch: do not wrap rfc2047 encoded headers too late

format-patch: introduce helper function last_line_length()

format-patch: make rfc2047 encoding more strict

format-patch: fix rfc2047 address encoding with respect to rfc822 specials

format-patch tests: check quoting/encoding in To: and Cc: headers



Jeff King (3):

diff_grep: use textconv buffers for add/deleted files

gitweb: escape html in rss title

checkout: print a message when switching unborn branches



Junio C Hamano (9):

builtin/grep.c: make configuration callback more reusable

grep: move the configuration parsing logic to grep.[ch]

grep: move pattern-type bits support to top-level grep.[ch]

revisions: initialize revs->grep_filter using grep_init()

log --grep: use the same helper to set -E/-F options as "git grep"

test-lib: Fix say_color () not to interpret \a\b\c in the message

Start preparing for 1.8.0.1

Further preparation for 1.8.0.1

Git 1.8.0.1



Marc Khouzam (1):

Completion must sort before using uniq



Matthieu Moy (2):

Documentation: remote tracking branch -> remote-tracking branch

Document 'git commit --no-edit' explicitly



Michael J Gruber (1):

push/pull: adjust missing upstream help text to changed interface



Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):

grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes



Phil Hord (1):

git-pull: Avoid merge-base on detached head



Philip Oakley (1):

Doc repository-layout: Show refs/replace



René Scharfe (6):

refs: lock symref that is to be deleted, not its target

branch: factor out check_branch_commit()

branch: factor out delete_branch_config()

branch: delete symref branch, not its target

branch: skip commit checks when deleting symref branches

branch: show targets of deleted symrefs, not sha1s



Romain Francoise (1):

mailmap: avoid out-of-bounds memory access



Stefan Zager (1):

Fix potential hang in https handshake



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