GIT v1.5.3.7 Release Notes

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Fixes since v1.5.3.6

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* git-send-email added 8-bit contents to the payload without

marking it as 8-bit in a CTE header.

* "git-bundle create a.bndl HEAD" dereferenced the symref and

did not record the ref as 'HEAD'; this prevented a bundle

from being used as a normal source of git-clone.

* The code to reject nonsense command line of the form

"git-commit -a paths..." and "git-commit --interactive

paths..." were broken.

* Adding a signature that is not ASCII-only to an original

commit that is ASCII-only would make the result non-ASCII.

"git-format-patch -s" did not mark such a message correctly

with MIME encoding header.

* git-add sometimes did not mark the resulting index entry

stat-clean. This affected only cases when adding the

contents with the same length as the previously staged

contents, and the previous staging made the index entry

"racily clean".

* git-commit did not honor GIT_INDEX_FILE the user had in the

environment.

* When checking out a revision, git-checkout did not report where the

updated HEAD is if you happened to have a file called HEAD in the

work tree.

* "git-rev-list --objects" mishandled a tree that points at a

submodule.

* "git cvsimport" was not ready for packed refs that "git gc" can

produce and gave incorrect results.

* Many scripted Porcelains were confused when you happened to have a

file called "HEAD" in your work tree.

Also it contains updates to the user manual and documentation.