[ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.5.4

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Wed Feb 05 2014 - 18:01:30 EST


The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.5.4 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:

cbf14318ee9652232489982bb2da15d2e5ebb580 git-1.8.5.4.tar.gz
6cfb7f23d2a3493d5b7657cc4558ff791294beb0 git-htmldocs-1.8.5.4.tar.gz
4ee26cf0d2db87b0be21192c4433359b6f38b217 git-manpages-1.8.5.4.tar.gz

The following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.5.4
tag and the maint branch that the tag points at:

url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
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

Also, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ has copies of the
release tarballs.

Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.8.5.4
--------------------

* "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored.
Diagnose it as an error.

* Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.

* SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
layer in "git send-email".

* "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
first modified path was a submodule.

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

* When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a
rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt
to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to
fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.

* "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag
nicely.

* "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
used to emit an error.

* There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of
parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but
there was.

* The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote
the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace.

* The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option
because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge".

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

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

Changes since v1.8.5.3 are as follows:

Jens Lehmann (1):
commit -v: strip diffs and submodule shortlogs from the commit message

Johannes Schindelin (1):
Remove the line length limit for graft files

Johannes Sixt (2):
git_connect: remove artificial limit of a remote command
git_connect: factor out discovery of the protocol and its parts

Junio C Hamano (4):
get_max_fd_limit(): fall back to OPEN_MAX upon getrlimit/sysconf failure
Documentation: exclude irrelevant options from "git pull"
Documentation: "git pull" does not have the "-m" option
Git 1.8.5.4

Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy (2):
clone,fetch: catch non positive --depth option value
add: don't complain when adding empty project root

Roman Kagan (1):
git-svn: workaround for a bug in svn serf backend

Thomas Rast (3):
send-email: pass Debug to Net::SMTP::SSL::new
send-email: --smtp-ssl-cert-path takes an argument
send-email: set SSL options through IO::Socket::SSL::set_client_defaults

Torsten BÃgershausen (8):
t5601: remove clear_ssh, refactor setup_ssh_wrapper
t5601: add tests for ssh
git fetch-pack: add --diag-url
t5500: add test cases for diag-url
git fetch: support host:/~repo
git_connect(): refactor the port handling for ssh
connect.c: refactor url parsing
git_connect(): use common return point

brian m. carlson (1):
log: properly handle decorations with chained tags

Ãystein Walle (1):
stash: handle specifying stashes with $IFS

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