The latest maintenance release Git v2.8.4 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 'v2.8.4'
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 v2.8.4 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.8.3
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* Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
* On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
* Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
* "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
potential error and warn.
* CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
* Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
which are all fixed with this.
* "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
commit."
* Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
being tested intact.
* "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
* When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a
faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would
result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case.
This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead.
* Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
* A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
dir-diff mode.
* The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.8.3 are as follows:
Alexander Rinass (1):
diff: run arguments through precompose_argv
Armin Kunaschik (1):
t4151: make sure argument to 'test -z' is given
Brian Norris (3):
Documentation: config: improve word ordering for http.cookieFile
http: expand http.cookieFile as a path
config: consistently format $variables in monospaced font
David Aguilar (2):
difftool: initialize variables for readability
difftool: handle unmerged files in dir-diff mode
Jeff King (3):
rebase--interactive: avoid empty list in shell for-loop
test-lib: set BASH_XTRACEFD automatically
archive-tar: convert snprintf to xsnprintf
Johannes Schindelin (3):
name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name
mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
mingw: remove unnecessary definition
Junio C Hamano (9):
fsck_commit_buffer(): do not special case the last validation
config: describe 'pathname' value type
test-lib-functions.sh: remove misleading comment on test_seq
test-lib-functions.sh: rewrite test_seq without Perl
Documentation: fix linkgit references
fsck: detect and warn a commit with embedded NUL
Start preparing for 2.8.4
More topics for 2.8.4
Git 2.8.4
Karsten Blees (1):
mingw: make isatty() recognize MSYS2's pseudo terminals (/dev/pty*)
Keller Fuchs (1):
Documentation: clarify signature verification
Lars Schneider (1):
travis-ci: build documentation
Li Peng (1):
typofix: assorted typofixes in comments, documentation and messages
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
remote.c: specify correct plural form in "commit diverge" message
Stefan Beller (3):
submodule deinit: require '--all' instead of '.' for all submodules
t3513: do not compress backup tar file
t6041: do not compress backup tar file
Torsten Bögershausen (5):
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t5601: Remove trailing space in sed expression
Vasco Almeida (12):
i18n: index-pack: use plural string instead of normal one
i18n: builtin/branch.c: mark option for translation
i18n: unpack-trees: mark strings for translation
i18n: builtin/rm.c: remove a comma ',' from string
i18n: branch: unmark string for translation
i18n: branch: move comment for translators
i18n: git-parse-remote.sh: mark strings for translation
i18n: builtin/pull.c: mark placeholders for translation
i18n: builtin/pull.c: split strings marked for translation
i18n: remote: add comment for translators
Documentation/git-mailinfo: fix typo
i18n: unpack-trees: avoid substituting only a verb in sentences
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