* When "git am" is fed an input that has multiple "Content-type: ..."
header, it did not grok charset= attribute correctly.
- * A patch attached as application/octet-stream (e.g. not text/*) were
- mishandled, not correctly honoring Content-Transfer-Encoding
- (e.g. base64).
- (merge 9d55b2e lt/mailinfo-handle-attachment-more-sanely later to maint).
+ * "git am" mishandled a patch attached as application/octet-stream
+ (e.g. not text/*); Content-Transfer-Encoding (e.g. base64) was not
+ honored correctly.
* "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
"MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
* It was unclear in the documentation for "git blame" that it is
unnecessary for users to use the "--follow" option.
- (merge e5dce96 jc/blame-follows-renames later to maint).
* Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
refspecs set up just like a clone without "--single", leading the
subsequent "git fetch" to slurp all the other branches, defeating
the whole point of specifying "only this branch".
- (merge 31b808a rt/maint-clone-single later to maint).
* Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
* "git fetch" over http had an old workaround for an unlikely server
misconfiguration; it turns out that this hurts debuggability of the
configuration in general, and has been reverted.
- (merge 6ac964a sp/maint-http-info-refs-no-retry later to maint).
* "git fetch" over http advertised that it supports "deflate", which
is much less common, and did not advertise the more common "gzip" on
its Accept-Encoding header.
- (merge aa90b96 sp/maint-http-enable-gzip later to maint).
* "git gc --auto" notified the user that auto-packing has triggered
even under the "--quiet" option.
* "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give
progress output while processing objects it received to the puser
when run over the smart-http protocol.
- (merge 74eb32d jk/receive-pack-unpack-error-to-pusher later to maint).
* When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in
the "git rebase -i" instruction sheet you were told that 'rebase' is not a
* "git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown
subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint
that "git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz".
- (merge af9c9f9 rr/maint-submodule-unknown-cmd later to maint).
* "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but
"git commit" didn't.
- (merge 8f6811e os/commit-submodule-ignore later to maint).