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recursive merge didn’t correctly diagnose its own programming errors, and instead caused the caller to segfault.
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The new "smart http" aware clients probed the web servers to see if they support smart http, but did not fall back to dumb http transport correctly with some servers.
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Time based reflog syntax e.g. "@{yesterday}" didn’t diagnose a misspelled time specification and instead assumed "@{now}".
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"git archive HEAD — no-such-directory" produced an empty archive without complaining.
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"git blame -L start,end — file" misbehaved when given a start that is larger than the number of lines in the file.
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"git checkout -m" didn’t correctly call custom merge backend supplied by the end user.
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"git config -f <file>" misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
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"git cvsserver" didn’t like having regex metacharacters (e.g. +) in CVSROOT environment.
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"git fast-import" did not correctly handle large blobs that may bust the pack size limit.
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"git gui" is supposed to work even when launched from inside a .git directory.
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"git gui" misbehaved when applying a hunk that ends with deletion.
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"git imap-send" did not honor imap.preformattedHTML as documented.
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"git log" family incorrectly showed the commit notes unconditionally by mistake, which was especially irritating when running "git log --oneline".
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"git status" shouldn’t require an write access to the repository.
Other minor documentation updates are included.