From 00d12607a27e387ad78b5957afa05e89c87e83a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:22:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Downmerge a handful of fixes for 2.37.x maintenance track Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RelNotes | 2 +- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d4acf9e5de --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git 2.37.2 Release Notes +======================== + +This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated on the 'master' +front since 2.37.1. + +Fixes since v2.37.1 +------------------- + + * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable, + which shouldn't have. Fixed. + + * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool". + + * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to + at a bogus place, which as been corrected. + + * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in + the merge-ort strategy. + + * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust + against different end-user vim settings. + + * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the + core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has + a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days. + + * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase" + documentation mark-up have been corrected. + + * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in + front of these messages. + + * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from + the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose + of creating the tree object(s) from its input. + + * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in + its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc. + + * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and + add some missing information to the documentation. + + * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is + shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes index a55e1d4eef..952f80e09a 120000 --- a/RelNotes +++ b/RelNotes @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.1.txt \ No newline at end of file +Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt \ No newline at end of file