git-1.9.0

[Fernando de Oliveira]

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Git v1.9.0 Release Notes ========================

Backward compatibility notes

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"git submodule foreach $cmd $args" used to treat "$cmd $args" the same way "ssh" did, concatenating them into a single string and letting the shell unquote. Careless users who forget to sufficiently quote $args get their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got unexpected results due to this. Starting from this release, the command line is passed directly to the shell, if it has an argument.

Read-only support for experimental loose-object format, in which users could optionally choose to write their loose objects for a short while between v1.4.3 and v1.5.3 era, has been dropped.

The meanings of the "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the command fetches tags _in addition to_ what is fetched by the same command line without the option.

The way "git push $there $what" interprets the $what part given on the command line, when it does not have a colon that explicitly tells us what ref at the $there repository is to be updated, has been enhanced.

A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).

[Fernando de Oliveira]

Fixed at r12709.

[bdubbs@…]

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