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1 | Git v2.7.1 Release Notes |
2 | ======================== | |
3 | ||
4 | Fixes since v2.7 | |
5 | ---------------- | |
6 | ||
7 | * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by | |
8 | exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, | |
9 | interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without | |
10 | setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. | |
11 | ||
12 | * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of | |
65edd96a | 13 | fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_pattern_list() forgot |
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14 | to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed |
15 | array. | |
16 | ||
17 | * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias | |
18 | files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. | |
19 | ||
20 | * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler | |
21 | and have been fixed. | |
22 | ||
23 | * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between | |
24 | the '--signoff' option and DCO. | |
25 | ||
26 | * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be | |
27 | at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. | |
28 | ||
29 | * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file | |
30 | listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change | |
31 | that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. | |
32 | ||
33 | * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR | |
34 | (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is | |
35 | done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to | |
36 | be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous | |
37 | user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling | |
38 | unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. | |
39 | ||
40 | * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server | |
41 | log. | |
42 | ||
43 | * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not | |
44 | ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". | |
45 | ||
46 | * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles | |
47 | mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not | |
48 | friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They | |
49 | now close the packs before doing so. | |
50 | ||
51 | * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a | |
52 | regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been | |
53 | corrected. | |
54 | ||
55 | * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has | |
56 | been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. | |
57 | ||
58 | * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch | |
59 | named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary | |
60 | disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. | |
61 | ||
62 | * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion | |
63 | 1.9.0 and later. | |
64 | ||
65 | * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly | |
66 | skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. | |
67 | ||
68 | * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was | |
69 | run from a subdirectory. | |
70 | ||
71 | * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. | |
72 | ||
73 | * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands | |
74 | have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a | |
75 | directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted | |
76 | CPU cycles. | |
77 | ||
78 | * Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them | |
79 | suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other | |
80 | one suggested to do. | |
81 | ||
82 | * Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity. | |
83 | ||
84 | * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options | |
85 | and command specific syntax. | |
86 | ||
87 | Also includes a handful of documentation and test updates. |