The latest maintenance release Git v2.12.2 is now available at the
usual places. These fixes have all been in the 'master' branch to
be included in the next feature release.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.12.2'
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 v2.12.2 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.12.1
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* "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
* "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
response, which has been fixed.
* "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
conversion).
* There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
standard error stream, but we somehow did.
* A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
has been plugged.
* "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not
report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
* A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
* "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
* A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the
original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to
be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
predictable.
* "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
without checking for overflow.
* The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
* A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
corrected not to do so.
* "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly,
unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
* "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
* Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the
variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing
misconfiguration.
* "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent
updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
.git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
repository. Stop doing so.
* The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev>
[[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs
have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev).
* The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
been fixed.
This supersedes jc/config-case-cmdline topic that has been discarded.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.12.1 are as follows:
David Turner (1):
gc: ignore old gc.log files
Eric Wong (1):
README: create HTTP/HTTPS links from URLs in Markdown
Jeff King (20):
grep: move thread initialization a little lower
grep: re-order rev-parsing loop
grep: fix "--" rev/pathspec disambiguation
grep: avoid resolving revision names in --no-index case
grep: do not diagnose misspelt revs with --no-index
show-branch: drop head_len variable
show-branch: store resolved head in heap buffer
remote: avoid reading $GIT_DIR config in non-repo
grep: treat revs the same for --untracked as for --no-index
show-branch: use skip_prefix to drop magic numbers
tempfile: set errno to a known value before calling ferror()
t6300: avoid creating refs/heads/HEAD
ewah: fix eword_t/uint64_t confusion
receive-pack: fix deadlock when we cannot create tmpdir
send-pack: extract parsing of "unpack" response
send-pack: use skip_prefix for parsing unpack status
send-pack: improve unpack-status error messages
send-pack: read "unpack" status even on pack-objects failure
send-pack: report signal death of pack-objects
http-walker: fix buffer underflow processing remote alternates
Johan Hovold (1):
send-email: only allow one address per body tag
Jonathan Nieder (1):
remote helpers: avoid blind fall-back to ".git" when setting GIT_DIR
Jonathan Tan (2):
grep: do not unnecessarily query repo for "--"
upload-pack: report "not our ref" to client
Junio C Hamano (5):
config: move a few helper functions up
config: use git_config_parse_key() in git_config_parse_parameter()
diff: do not short-cut CHECK_SIZE_ONLY check in diff_populate_filespec()
Prepare for 2.12.2
Git 2.12.2
Michael J Gruber (2):
git-status: make porcelain more robust
mailmap: use Michael J Gruber's new address
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
git-commit.txt: list post-rewrite in HOOKS section
Patrick Steinhardt (2):
docs/diffcore: fix grammar in diffcore-rename header
docs/diffcore: unquote "Complete Rewrites" in headers
Ramsay Jones (2):
wrapper.c: remove unused git_mkstemp() function
wrapper.c: remove unused gitmkstemps() function
René Scharfe (3):
sha1_file: release fallback base's memory in unpack_entry()
commit: be more precise when searching for headers
commit: don't check for space twice when looking for header
Ross Lagerwall (1):
remote: ignore failure to remove missing branch.<name>.merge
Sebastian Schuberth (1):
contrib: git-remote-{bzr,hg} placeholders don't need Python
Stefan Beller (1):
submodule-config: correct error reporting for invalid ignore value
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (2):
doc: change erroneous --[no]-whatever into --[no-]whatever
push: mention "push.default=tracking" in the documentation