Git v1.8.0 Release Notes

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Updates since v1.7.12

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UI, Workflows & Features

Foreign Interface

* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.

Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)

* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly

simplified.

Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Fixes since v1.7.12

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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the

maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes

to them for details).

* "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the

header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.

(merge b622d4d tr/maint-send-email-2047 later to maint).

* When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a

revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we

used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message

has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command

line.

(merge 4d4b573 mm/die-with-dashdash-help later to maint).

* "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with

SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.

(merge cacfc09 js/gitweb-path-info-unquote later to maint).