The latest maintenance release Git v2.6.2 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 'v2.6.2'
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 v2.6.2 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.6.1
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* There were some classes of errors that "git fsck" diagnosed to its
standard error that did not cause it to exit with non-zero status.
* A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug,
which was fixed.
* Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git.
* On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable
using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem
thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree.
* When "git am" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying
attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed.
* After "git checkout --detach", "git status" reported a fairly
useless "HEAD detached at HEAD", instead of saying at which exact
commit.
* "git rebase -i" had a minor regression recently, which stopped
considering a line that begins with an indented '#' in its insn
sheet not a comment, which is now fixed.
* Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log"
documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation.
* Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call
inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause
glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler
tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager(). Reduce
these unsafe calls.
* The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are
DWIMmed was not clearly documented.
* Customization to change the behaviour with "make -w" and "make -s"
in our Makefile was broken when they were used together.
* The Makefile always runs the library archiver with hardcoded "crs"
options, which was inconvenient for exotic platforms on which
people want to use programs with totally different set of command
line options.
* The ssh transport, just like any other transport over the network,
did not clear GIT_* environment variables, but it is possible to
use SendEnv and AcceptEnv to leak them to the remote invocation of
Git, which is not a good idea at all. Explicitly clear them just
like we do for the local transport.
* "git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0" was not rejected but did not
limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain.
* Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional
(which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end
of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and
every one of them.
Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.6.1 are as follows:
Alex Henrie (2):
merge: grammofix in please-commit-before-merge message
pull: enclose <options> in brackets in the usage string
Christian Couder (2):
quote: fix broken sq_quote_buf() related comment
quote: move comment before sq_quote_buf()
Eric N. Vander Weele (1):
log: Update log.follow doc and add to config.txt
Jacob Keller (1):
notes: correct documentation of DWIMery for notes references
Jeff King (3):
git_connect: clear GIT_* environment for ssh
git_connect: clarify conn->use_shell flag
blame: handle --first-parent
Johannes Schindelin (1):
setup: fix "inside work tree" detection on case-insensitive filesystems
John Keeping (2):
Makefile: fix MAKEFLAGS tests with multiple flags
Documentation: fix section header mark-up
Junio C Hamano (3):
Makefile: allow $(ARFLAGS) specified from the command line
fsck: exit with non-zero when problems are found
Git 2.6.2
Matthieu Moy (7):
Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'
Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O
Documentation: explain optional arguments better
t3203: test 'detached at' after checkout --detach
status: don't say 'HEAD detached at HEAD'
rebase-i: explicitly accept tab as separator in commands
rebase-i: loosen over-eager check_bad_cmd check
Michael J Gruber (1):
t2026: rename worktree prune test
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
ls-remote.txt: delete unsupported option
Renee Margaret McConahy (1):
am: configure gpg at startup
Stephan Beyer (2):
t5561: get rid of racy appending to logfile
t/perf: make runner work even if Git is not installed
Takashi Iwai (1):
pager: don't use unsafe functions in signal handlers
Tobias Klauser (2):
connect: fix typo in result string of prot_name()
Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fix
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