Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt

   1 Git v2.7.3 Release Notes
   2 ========================
   3
   4 Fixes since v2.7.2
   5 ------------------
   6
   7  * Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
   8    contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
   9    filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
  10    subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
  11    harder to tell them apart.  The traditional tests have been renamed
  12    to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.
  13
  14  * Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
  15    the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
  16    setting a configuration variable failed.
  17
  18  * Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
  19    process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
  20    tests.
  21
  22  * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
  23    rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard
  24    characters in a tree object.
  25
  26  * "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature
  27    misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
  28
  29  * The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
  30    broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.
  31
  32  * "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
  33    its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
  34    what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
  35    been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
  36    the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
  37    system.
  38
  39  * The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
  40    tricky, has been documented a bit better.
  41
  42  * The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
  43    now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
  44    not set.
  45
  46  * Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
  47    arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses.  Rewrite the
  48    tests to sidestep the problem.
  49
  50  * A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
  51    modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
  52    (e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.
  53
  54  * "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository
  55    configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository,
  56    but didn't say the reason correctly.
  57
  58  * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack
  59    idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the
  60    data in the idx.
  61
  62 Also includes documentation and test updates.