The first maintenance release Git v2.4.1 is now available at the
usual places.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.4.1'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
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Git v2.4.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.4
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* The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory
showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the
directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also,
when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff"
and compare the file with the file with the same name in the
directory, instead of refusing to run.
* The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"
that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email
entries in it.
* "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost
the daylight-saving-time offset.
* "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no
object type that is "bl".
* Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files
that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the
beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
files already.
* Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a
slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code
becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning.
* We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but
the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the
root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to
do, but still valid).
Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.4.0 are as follows:
Carlos Martín Nieto (1):
dir: allow a BOM at the beginning of exclude files
Elia Pinto (1):
test-lib-functions.sh: fix the second argument to some helper functions
Jeff King (5):
init: don't set core.worktree when initializing /.git
type_from_string_gently: make sure length matches
reachable: only mark local objects as recent
sha1_file: freshen pack objects before loose
sha1_file: only freshen packs once per run
Junio C Hamano (10):
diff-no-index: DWIM "diff D F" into "diff D/F F"
diff-no-index: align D/F handling with that of normal Git
parse_date_basic(): return early when given a bogus timestamp
parse_date_basic(): let the system handle DST conversion
add_excludes_from_file: clarify the bom skipping logic
utf8-bom: introduce skip_utf8_bom() helper
config: use utf8_bom[] from utf.[ch] in git_parse_source()
attr: skip UTF8 BOM at the beginning of the input file
Git 2.3.8
Git 2.4.1
Matthieu Moy (2):
Documentation: change -L:<regex> to -L:<funcname>
log -L: improve error message on malformed argument
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
t1509: update prepare script to be able to run t1509 in chroot again
Ossi Herrala (1):
config: fix settings in default_user_config template
Stefan Beller (2):
line-log.c: fix a memleak
pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak
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