The latest maintenance release Git v2.13.1 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 'v2.13.1'
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 = https://github.com/gitster/git
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Git v2.13.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.13
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* The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with
ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is
based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
* Update tests to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism to ensure
that output strings that should not be translated are not
translated by mistake), and tell TravisCI to run them.
* Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take
effect in v2.13, which has been corrected.
* An earlier update to test 7400 needed to be skipped on CYGWIN.
* Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
* "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use
--empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request
will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish
to be merged.
* The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase"
leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased.
* "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other
options are in use, and need to be disabled.
* Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
configuration variables.
* Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at
missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they
should silently be ignored instead)
* A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
documentation have been updated to https:// links.
* Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out
with "platform native" line ending convention by default on
Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts
themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be
checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.
* Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).
* The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
records the same set of push options used for pushing.
* "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery
mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line.
This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added
after completing the existing incomplete line.
* The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has
a new "push" subcommand.
* Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both
AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor.
* Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
multi-line comments.
* "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the
per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did
not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed.
* A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch
tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory.
* "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to
resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs,
which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem.
* "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit
-v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end,
i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been
corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to
the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it.
* A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other
end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms
that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND,
but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing
intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling
traces from "receive-pack" in the test.
* "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no
slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as
that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem.
* The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13
was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that
do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which
has already fixed these issues.
* "git am -h" triggered a BUG().
* The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
whitelisting is now documented better.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.13.0 are as follows:
Andreas Heiduk (4):
Documentation: fix reference to ifExists for interpret-trailers
Documentation: fix formatting typo in pretty-formats.txt
doc: filter-branch does not require re-export of vars
doc: rewrite description for rev-parse --short
Brian Malehorn (1):
interpret-trailers: honor the cut line
Jean-Noel Avila (3):
usability: don't ask questions if no reply is required
read-tree -m: make error message for merging 0 trees less smart aleck
git-filter-branch: be more direct in an error message
Jeff King (14):
am: fix commit buffer leak in get_commit_info()
am: simplify allocations in get_commit_info()
am: shorten ident_split variable name in get_commit_info()
pack-objects: disable pack reuse for object-selection options
t5310: fix "; do" style
docs/config: clarify include/includeIf relationship
docs/config: give a relative includeIf example
docs/config: avoid the term "expand" for includes
docs/config: consistify include.path examples
t5400: avoid concurrent writes into a trace file
ref-filter: resolve HEAD when parsing %(HEAD) atom
revision.c: ignore broken tags with ignore_missing_links
am: handle "-h" argument earlier
docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf
Johannes Schindelin (31):
mingw: avoid memory leak when splitting PATH
winansi: avoid use of uninitialized value
winansi: avoid buffer overrun
add_commit_patch_id(): avoid allocating memory unnecessarily
git_config_rename_section_in_file(): avoid resource leak
get_mail_commit_oid(): avoid resource leak
difftool: address a couple of resource/memory leaks
status: close file descriptor after reading git-rebase-todo
mailinfo & mailsplit: check for EOF while parsing
cat-file: fix memory leak
checkout: fix memory leak
split_commit_in_progress(): simplify & fix memory leak
setup_bare_git_dir(): help static analysis
setup_discovered_git_dir(): plug memory leak
pack-redundant: plug memory leak
mktree: plug memory leaks reported by Coverity
fast-export: avoid leaking memory in handle_tag()
receive-pack: plug memory leak in update()
line-log: avoid memory leak
shallow: avoid memory leak
add_reflog_for_walk: avoid memory leak
remote: plug memory leak in match_explicit()
name-rev: avoid leaking memory in the `deref` case
show_worktree(): plug memory leak
submodule_uses_worktrees(): plug memory leak
Fix build with core.autocrlf=true
git-new-workdir: mark script as LF-only
completion: mark bash script as LF-only
t3901: move supporting files into t/t3901/
Fix the remaining tests that failed with core.autocrlf=true
t4051: mark supporting files as requiring LF-only line endings
Johannes Sixt (2):
mingw.h: permit arguments with side effects for is_dir_sep
Windows: do not treat a path with backslashes as a remote's nick name
Jonathan Nieder (2):
credential doc: make multiple-helper behavior more prominent
clone: handle empty config values in -c
Jonathan Tan (3):
sequencer: add newline before adding footers
docs: correct receive.advertisePushOptions default
receive-pack: verify push options in cert
Junio C Hamano (6):
apply.c: fix whitespace-only mismerge
checkout: fix memory leak
doc: replace more gmane links
read-tree: "read-tree -m --empty" does not make sense
Prepare for 2.13.1; more topics to follow
Git 2.13.1
Kyle Meyer (1):
config.txt: add an entry for log.showSignature
Lars Schneider (6):
travis-ci: build documentation with AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor
travis-ci: parallelize documentation build
travis-ci: unset compiler for jobs that do not need one
travis-ci: check AsciiDoc/AsciiDoctor stderr output
travis-ci: setup "prove cache" in "script" step
travis-ci: add job to run tests with GETTEXT_POISON
Phillip Wood (3):
rebase -i: fix reflog message
rebase -i: silence stash apply
rebase -i: add missing newline to end of message
Ramsay Jones (1):
t7400: add !CYGWIN prerequisite to 'add with \\ in path'
René Scharfe (2):
checkout: check return value of resolve_refdup before using hash
am: check return value of resolve_refdup before using hash
SZEDER Gábor (1):
docs/config.txt: fix indefinite article in core.fileMode description
Sahil Dua (1):
branch test: fix invalid config key access
Stefan Beller (1):
t5531: fix test description
Sven Strickroth (1):
doc: use https links to Wikipedia to avoid http redirects
Thomas Gummerer (1):
completion: add git stash push
Torsten Bögershausen (1):
t0027: tests are not expensive; remove t0025
brian m. carlson (1):
builtin/log: honor log.decorate
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (6):
config.mak.uname: set NO_REGEX=NeedsStartEnd on AIX
doc: replace a couple of broken gmane links
tests: fix tests broken under GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease
sha1dc: update from upstream
tag: duplicate mention of --contains should mention --no-contains
C style: use standard style for "TRANSLATORS" comments