The latest maintenance release Git v2.5.2 is now available at the
usual places, together with updates to older maintenance tracks,
v2.4.9, v2.3.9 and v2.2.3. These updates to older tracks are to
plug buffer overflows due to fixed-sized buffers used to store
pathnames in a handful of codepaths (kudos to Peff).
The maintenance release 2.5.2 for the current maintenance track also
contains other fixes that was recently made on the 'master' front.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.5.2'
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 = 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 v2.5.2 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.5.1
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* "git init empty && git -C empty log" said "bad default revision 'HEAD'",
which was found to be a bit confusing to new users.
* The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of
a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer
block.
* When re-priming the cache-tree opportunistically while committing
the in-core index as-is, we mistakenly invalidated the in-core
index too aggressively, causing the experimental split-index code
to unnecessarily rewrite the on-disk index file(s).
* "git archive" did not use zip64 extension when creating an archive
with more than 64k entries, which nobody should need, right ;-)?
* The code in "multiple-worktree" support that attempted to recover
from an inconsistent state updated an incorrect file.
* "git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain
when one is given.
* Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and
"pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo'
as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these
keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a
git command'. These warning messages have been squelched.
* We recently rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl, which made it
necessary to have Perl to build Git. Reduced Perl dependency by
rewriting it again using sed.
* t1509 test that requires a dedicated VM environment had some
bitrot, which has been corrected.
* strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary
strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated.
* The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to
the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while
calling die().
* When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno
leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and
then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses
O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the
packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the
object does not exist in that packfile to the caller.
* An off-by-one error made "git remote" to mishandle a remote with a
single letter nickname.
* A handful of codepaths that used to use fixed-sized arrays to hold
pathnames have been corrected to use strbuf and other mechanisms to
allow longer pathnames without fearing overflows.
Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.5.1 are as follows:
Andreas Schwab (1):
Documentation/config: fix inconsistent label on gc.*.reflogExpireUnreachable
Christian Couder (3):
trailer: ignore first line of message
trailer: retitle a test and correct an in-comment message
trailer: support multiline title
Clemens Buchacher (1):
git_open_noatime: return with errno=0 on success
David Turner (1):
commit: don't rewrite shared index unnecessarily
Eric Sunshine (1):
generate-cmdlist: re-implement as shell script
Erik Elfström (1):
t7300: fix broken && chains
Jeff King (9):
vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandles
vreportf: avoid intermediate buffer
config: silence warnings for command names with invalid keys
rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notes
log: diagnose empty HEAD more clearly
verify_absent: allow filenames longer than PATH_MAX
notes: use a strbuf in add_non_note
read_info_alternates: handle paths larger than PATH_MAX
show-branch: use a strbuf for reflog descriptions
Jim Hill (1):
strbuf_read(): skip unnecessary strbuf_grow() at eof
Johannes Sixt (1):
t2019: skip test requiring '*' in a file name non Windows
Junio C Hamano (5):
ps_matched: xcalloc() takes nmemb and then element size
Git 2.2.3
Git 2.3.9
Git 2.4.9
Git 2.5.2
Michael Haggerty (4):
get_remote_group(): handle remotes with single-character names
get_remote_group(): rename local variable "space" to "wordlen"
get_remote_group(): eliminate superfluous call to strcspn()
get_remote_group(): use skip_prefix()
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
setup: update the right file in multiple checkouts
Patrick Steinhardt (2):
tests: fix broken && chains in t1509-root-worktree
tests: fix cleanup after tests in t1509-root-worktree
Philip Oakley (1):
po/README: Update directions for l10n contributors
René Scharfe (3):
t5004: test ZIP archives with many entries
archive-zip: use a local variable to store the creator version
archive-zip: support more than 65535 entries
SZEDER Gábor (2):
t3020: fix typo in test description
wt-status: move #include "pathspec.h" to the header
Sven Strickroth (1):
config: close config file handle in case of error
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