The latest maintenance release Git v2.9.1 is now available at the
usual places. This release includes fixes to two bugs that have
been reported on the list recently, among other changes:
- v2.9.0 changed cloning of submodules in a top-level superproject
that was cloned shallowly to explicitly ask for the exact commit
bound at the superproject, which many instances of servers are
not yet prepared to handle (the feature appeared in a few
releases ago but the server operators may not have enabled it
yet).
- "git bisect" at the end tries to give something similar to an
output from "git show --raw" for the found culprit, but the step
was broken due to an internal API change.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.9.1'
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 = 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 v2.9.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.9
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* When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
* The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
--no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
"auto".
* "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
bitmap index.
* "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
which has been fixed.
* The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
* "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
documented now.
* The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
* "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
reflog was truncated.
* The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
* A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
* "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
* Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
* "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
tree".
* Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
* "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
* "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
as "git diff" output.
* "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width
relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It
also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
to the right border.
* The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
* "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
* Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
GPG signature have been documented.
* Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
of the submodules are not prepared for.
* Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
* Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
corrected.
* The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking
+0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
of aborting.
* One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
* t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
* A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
paths that are _inside_.
* The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
instead.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.9.0 are as follows:
Alfred Perlstein (1):
git-svn: document the 'git svn propset' command
Andrew Oakley (1):
git-p4: correct hasBranchPrefix verbose output
Armin Kunaschik (1):
t7800: readlink may not be available
Charles Bailey (1):
t7810: fix duplicated test title
Dave Nicolson (1):
Documentation: GPG capitalization
David Turner (1):
mailmap: use main email address for dturner
Ed Maste (1):
rebase: update comment about FreeBSD /bin/sh
Edward Thomson (2):
format_commit_message: honor `color=auto` for `%C(auto)`
add: add --chmod=+x / --chmod=-x options
Eric Wong (1):
daemon: enable SO_KEEPALIVE for all sockets
Heiko Becker (1):
gnome-keyring: Don't hard-code pkg-config executable
Jeff King (9):
rev-list: "adjust" results of "--count --use-bitmap-index -n"
rev-list: disable bitmaps when "-n" is used with listing objects
tree-diff: avoid alloca for large allocations
fetch: document that pruning happens before fetching
add--interactive: respect diff.compactionHeuristic
bisect: always call setup_revisions after init_revisions
t0006: rename test-date's "show" to "relative"
t0006: test various date formats
local_tzoffset: detect errors from tm_to_time_t
Johannes Schindelin (3):
mingw: let the build succeed with DEVELOPER=1
perf: accommodate for MacOSX
t2300: "git --exec-path" is not usable in $PATH on Windows as-is
Jonathan Nieder (1):
doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no more
Josef Kufner (1):
pretty: pass graph width to pretty formatting for use in '%>|(N)'
Junio C Hamano (5):
blame, line-log: do not loop around deref_tag()
clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodules
Start preparing for 2.9.1
More fixes for 2.9.1
Git 2.9.1
Keith McGuigan (1):
builtin/fetch.c: don't free remote->name after fetch
LE Manh Cuong (1):
sh-setup: enclose setting of ${VAR=default} in double-quotes
Lars Vogel (1):
Use "working tree" instead of "working directory" for git status
Michael J Gruber (5):
cherry-pick: allow to pick to unborn branches
Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
Documentation/technical: signed tag format
Documentation/technical: signed commit format
Documentation/technical: signed merge tag format
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
pretty.c: support <direction>|(<negative number>) forms
Peter Colberg (2):
refs.h: fix misspelt "occurred" in a comment
config.c: fix misspelt "occurred" in an error message
Pranit Bauva (1):
strbuf: describe the return value of strbuf_read_file
Ramsay Jones (1):
regex: fix a SIZE_MAX macro redefinition warning
René Scharfe (9):
t4051: rewrite, add more tests
xdiff: factor out match_func_rec()
xdiff: handle appended chunks better with -W
xdiff: ignore empty lines before added functions with -W
xdiff: -W: don't include common trailing empty lines in context
xdiff: don't trim common tail with -W
t7810: add test for grep -W and trailing empty context lines
grep: -W: don't extend context to trailing empty lines
xdiff: fix merging of appended hunk with -W
SZEDER Gábor (1):
reflog: continue walking the reflog past root commits
Stefan Beller (1):
t5614: don't use subshells
Tom Russello (4):
doc: clearer rule about formatting literals
doc: change environment variables format
doc: more consistency in environment variables format
doc: change configuration variables format
Ville Skyttä (1):
git-prompt.sh: Don't error on null ${ZSH,BASH}_VERSION, $short_sha
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