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Git ???? Release Notes
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======================
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Updates since v2.3
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------------------
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Ports
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* Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some
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platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2)
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failures.
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* We did not check the curl library version before using
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CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* The command usage info strings given by "git cmd -h" and in
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documentation have been tweaked for consistency.
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* The "sync" subcommand of "git p4" now allows users to exclude
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subdirectories like its "clone" subcommand does.
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* "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do
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not have the string "WIP" in their messages.
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* "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
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update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
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* Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git
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push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be
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tweaked by push-to-checkout hook.
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* Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side,
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HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests.
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* "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an
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answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without
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questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks
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too short to be a valid encoding name.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us
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detect mistakes.
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* Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the
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reflogs better with the recently updated ref API.
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* The transport-helper did not give transport options such as
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verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based
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helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them
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the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better.
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* The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after
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running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it
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is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as
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a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good
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heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to
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check what they really require.
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(merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint).
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* The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
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the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
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can check only one place for all necessary information.
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* The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
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the API manual.
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* Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a
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project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we
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(should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first
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place.
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* Typofix in comments.
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(merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint).
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* Code clean-up.
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(merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint).
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(merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v2.3
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----------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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notes for details).
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* "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
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tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
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(merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint).
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* "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did
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not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree
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files and failed to do so for whatever reason.
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(merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint).
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* Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce
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broken patches.
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(merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint).
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* After attempting and failing a password-less authentication
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(e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based
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Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement.
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(merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint).
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* The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
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easily misunderstood.
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(merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint).
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* Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory
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would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file.
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(merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint).
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* A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed.
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(merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint).
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* The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
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only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
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the --raw format.
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(merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint).
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* A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the
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dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other
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side.
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(merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint).
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* The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author
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name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been
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reworded to avoid misunderstanding.
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(merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint).
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* "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
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to the "log" command.
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(merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint).
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* "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when
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the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch.
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(merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint).
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* The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it"
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interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when
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the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the
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user could have made was to choose nothing.
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(merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint).
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* The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor
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core.abbrev settings.
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(merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint).
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* "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list"
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command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD.
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(merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint).
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* "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when
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the other side did not support the capability.
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(merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint).
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* We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in
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"uintmax_t" correctly.
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(merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint).
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* Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone
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CR, use to confuse the configuration parser.
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(merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint).
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* The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC.
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(merge bd4e882 jk/pack-bitmap later to maint).
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* The documentation wasn't clear that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and
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"remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed
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via different transports, not two separate repositories.
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(merge 697f652 jc/remote-set-url-doc later to maint).
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* Older GnuPG implementations may not correctly import the keyring
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material we prepare for the tests to use.
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(merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint).
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* The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle
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a user name with an at-sign in it.
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(merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint).
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* Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
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the documentation.
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(merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint).
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* An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings
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from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required
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version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower)
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for other reasons.
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(merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint).
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* Certain older vintages of cURL give irregular output from
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"curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system.
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(merge 3af6792 tc/curl-vernum-output-broken-in-7.11 later to maint).
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* In v2.2.0, we broke "git prune" that runs in a repository that
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borrows from an alternate object store.
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(merge b0a4264 jk/prune-mtime later to maint).
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* "git submodule add" failed to squash "path/to/././submodule" to
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"path/to/submodule".
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(merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint).
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* "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory.
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(merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint).
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* "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory.
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(merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint).
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* "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and
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conclude the resulting packfile cleanly.
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(merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint).
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* "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be
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refreshed for whatever reason.
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(merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint).
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