The latest maintenance release Git v2.4.3 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 'v2.4.3'
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 v2.4.3 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.4.3
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* Error messages from "git branch" called remote-tracking branches as
"remote branches".
* "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a
cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead.
* "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but
"git pull --log=20" did not.
* The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.
* The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred
pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory
enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation
size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough.
* Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
formatter) happier.
* "git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the
command line.
* Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago
unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with
resource exhaustion.
* The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is
removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice
versa) very well.
* The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit
at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not
work with --decorate=full.
* There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect
failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the
test was written; turn it into a proper test.
* core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
* The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb
differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and
its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink"
variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared
anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh").
* "git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a
bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start.
* "git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by
killing the editor.
* Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone"
with native transports.
* Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git()
call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the
state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history
with LF line ending to make their project portabile across
platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with
CRLF for their platform.
* Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.4.2 are as follows:
Danny Lin (1):
branch: do not call a "remote-tracking branch" a "remote branch"
Fredrik Gustafsson (1):
Documentation: clarify how "git commit" cleans up the edited log message
Jean-Noel Avila (1):
doc: fix unmatched code fences
Jeff King (14):
sha1_file: squelch "packfile cannot be accessed" warnings
t/lib-httpd.sh: skip tests if NO_CURL is defined
add: check return value of launch_editor
doc: fix unmatched code fences in git-stripspace
doc: fix misrendering due to `single quote'
doc: fix unquoted use of "{type}"
doc: fix hanging "+"-continuation
doc: fix length of underlined section-title
doc/add: reformat `--edit` option
doc: convert \--option to --option
doc: drop backslash quoting of some curly braces
doc: put example URLs and emails inside literal backticks
doc: convert AsciiDoc {?foo} to ifdef::foo[]
rerere: exit silently on "forget" when rerere is disabled
Junio C Hamano (7):
t0302: "unreadable" test needs POSIXPERM
fmt-merge-msg: plug small leak of commit buffer
ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfile
tests: skip dav http-push tests under NO_EXPAT=NoThanks
log: decorate HEAD with branch name under --decorate=full, too
log: do not shorten decoration names too early
Git 2.4.3
Michael Haggerty (30):
t1404: new tests of ref D/F conflicts within transactions
is_refname_available(): revamp the comments
is_refname_available(): avoid shadowing "dir" variable
is_refname_available(): convert local variable "dirname" to strbuf
entry_matches(): inline function
report_refname_conflict(): inline function
struct nonmatching_ref_data: store a refname instead of a ref_entry
is_refname_available(): use dirname in first loop
ref_transaction_commit(): use a string_list for detecting duplicates
refs: check for D/F conflicts among refs created in a transaction
verify_refname_available(): rename function
verify_refname_available(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): report errors via a "struct strbuf *err"
lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts
rename_ref(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
ref_transaction_commit(): provide better error messages
ref_transaction_commit(): delete extra "the" from error message
reflog_expire(): integrate lock_ref_sha1_basic() errors into ours
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
write_ref_to_lockfile(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
commit_ref_update(): new function, extracted from write_ref_sha1()
rename_ref(): inline calls to write_ref_sha1() from this function
ref_transaction_commit(): inline call to write_ref_sha1()
ref_transaction_commit(): remove the local flags variable
ref_transaction_commit(): fix atomicity and avoid fd exhaustion
Mike Hommey (1):
clone: call transport_set_verbosity before anything else on the newly created transport
Patrick Steinhardt (5):
bundle: verify arguments more strictly
git-verify-pack.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
git-unpack-objects.txt: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
pack-protocol.txt: fix insconsistent spelling of "packfile"
doc: fix inconsistent spelling of "packfile"
Paul Tan (13):
git-credential-store: support multiple credential files
git-credential-store: support XDG_CONFIG_HOME
t0302: test credential-store support for XDG_CONFIG_HOME
path.c: implement xdg_config_home()
attr.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
dir.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
credential-store.c: replace home_config_paths() with xdg_config_home()
git-commit: replace use of home_config_paths()
git-config: replace use of home_config_paths()
path.c: remove home_config_paths()
pull: handle --log=<n>
pull: make pull.ff=true override merge.ff
pull: parse pull.ff as a bool or string
Phil Hord (1):
rebase -i: redo tasks that die during cherry-pick
René Scharfe (1):
pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size for recent_bitmaps
Stefan Beller (5):
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
update-ref: test handling large transactions properly
t7004: rename ULIMIT test prerequisite to ULIMIT_STACK_SIZE
subdirectory tests: code cleanup, uncomment test
Torsten Bögershausen (1):
blame: CRLF in the working tree and LF in the repo
brian m. carlson (3):
connect: simplify SSH connection code path
t5601: fix quotation error leading to skipped tests
connect: improve check for plink to reduce false positives
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