Git v1.8.3.2

announcement

The latest maintenance release Git v1.8.3.2 is now available at the
usual places. It contains fixes that have already been applied to
the master branch for 1.8.4.

The release tarballs are found at:

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

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

4a6585dd81a542e7803e5f54a5c85b1c1a5869aa  git-1.8.3.2.tar.gz
adffaa379e1994fc6d6cb6491aed680ad6bb37ad  git-htmldocs-1.8.3.2.tar.gz
5ce8c00fe9e2755c67d29b2f2135fc8c4202fc1f  git-manpages-1.8.3.2.tar.gz

The following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.8.3.2
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 v1.8.3.2 Release Notes

Fixes since v1.8.3.1

  • Cloning with “git clone –depth N” while fetch.fsckobjects (or
    transfer.fsckobjects) is set to true did not tell the cut-off
    points of the shallow history to the process that validates the
    objects and the history received, causing the validation to fail.

  • “git checkout foo” DWIMs the intended “upstream” and turns it into
    “git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo”. This codepath has been
    updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account.

  • “git fetch” into a shallow repository from a repository that does
    not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork
    from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)
    did not work correctly.

  • “git subtree” (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error
    checks to lose data at the remote side.

  • “git log –ancestry-path A…B” did not work as expected, as it did
    not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B
    was the bottom of the range being specified.

  • “git diff -c -p” was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when
    another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends.

  • “git merge @{-1}22″ was rewritten to “git merge frotz@{1}22″
    incorrectly when your previous branch was “frotz” (it should be
    rewritten to “git merge frotz~22” instead).

  • “git commit –allow-empty-message -m ”” should not start an
    editor.

  • “git push –[no-]verify” was not documented.

  • An entry for “file://” scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git
    can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link
    by mistake.

  • zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not
    work due to slight differences in array variable notation between
    these two shells.

  • The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch
    being rebased when “rebase -i/-m/-p” modes are in use, but not the
    plain vanilla “rebase”.

  • “git push $there HEAD:branch” did not resolve HEAD early enough, so
    it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push
    out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the
    command was started.

  • “difftool –dir-diff” did not copy back changes made by the
    end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
    cases.

Junio C Hamano wrote on 28 Jun 2013