The latest maintenance release Git v2.15.1 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 'v2.15.1'
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 v2.15.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.15
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* TravisCI build updates.
* "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to
judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as
"auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard
output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the
latter, which has been fixed.
* The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output"
feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, which
has been corrected.
* Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to
implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair
of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code.
* Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the
HEAD points at, which have been fixed.
* "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when
asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been corrected.
* "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a
separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and
listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the
directory itself as ignored.
* A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep
--recurse-submodules" has been fixed.
* A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git
commands from subdirectories via "exec" instruction has been fixed.
* "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
* Command line completion (in contrib/) update.
* Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
* After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function
sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat,
which has been fixed.
* UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now
tested just like Mingw builds.
* Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed
immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at
around Git 2.13).
* The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved
to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are
currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded).
* Updates from GfW project.
* "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that
is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has
been corrected.
* Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have
been fixed.
* Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed.
* We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system
that does not help anything; it has been corrected.
* Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been
improved.
* An ancient bug in "git apply --ignore-space-change" codepath has
been fixed.
* There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a
section of a configuration section, which has been corrected.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.15.0 are as follows:
Adam Dinwoodie (3):
t5580: add Cygwin support
rebase -i: fix comment typo
doc/SubmittingPatches: correct subject guidance
Andrey Okoshkin (2):
commit: check result of resolve_ref_unsafe
diff: fix lstat() error handling in diff_populate_filespec()
Brandon Williams (1):
wt-status: actually ignore submodules when requested
Carlos Martín Nieto (1):
diff: --indent-heuristic is no longer experimental
Charles Bailey (2):
t4201: make use of abbreviation in the test more robust
grep: fix NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT to fully disable JIT
Dennis Kaarsemaker (1):
credential-libsecret: unlock locked secrets
Jacob Keller (1):
sequencer: pass absolute GIT_DIR to exec commands
Jakub Bereżański (2):
t0302: check helper can handle empty credentials
wincred: handle empty username/password correctly
Jean Carlo Machado (1):
fix typos in 2.15.0 release notes
Jeff King (11):
t4015: refactor --color-moved whitespace test
t4015: check "negative" case for "-w --color-moved"
t4015: test the output of "diff --color-moved -b"
diff: fix whitespace-skipping with --color-moved
diff: handle NULs in get_string_hash()
test-ref-store: avoid passing NULL to printf
remote: handle broken symrefs
log: handle broken HEAD in decoration check
worktree: handle broken symrefs in find_shared_symref()
setup: avoid double slashes when looking for HEAD
link_alt_odb_entries: make empty input a noop
Johannes Schindelin (5):
status: do not get confused by submodules in excluded directories
mingw: include the full version information in the resources
mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle
mingw: document the standard handle redirection
Junio C Hamano (9):
t5601: rm the target file of cp that could still be executing
check-ref-format --branch: do not expand @{...} outside repository
check-ref-format --branch: strip refs/heads/ using skip_prefix
check-ref-format doc: --branch validates and expands <branch>
column: do not include pager.c
Start preparation for 2.15.1
Almost ready for 2.15.1
A bit more fixes for 2.15.1
Git 2.15.1
Kaartic Sivaraam (1):
mailmap: use Kaartic Sivaraam's new address
Kevin Daudt (1):
column: show auto columns when pager is active
Martin Ågren (7):
grep: take the read-lock when adding a submodule
bisect: change calling-convention of `find_bisection()`
bisect: fix memory leak in `find_bisection()`
bisect: fix off-by-one error in `best_bisection_sorted()`
bisect: fix memory leak when returning best element
builtin/merge-base: free commit lists
reduce_heads: fix memory leaks
René Scharfe (6):
sequencer: factor out rewrite_file()
sequencer: use O_TRUNC to truncate files
imap-send: handle NULL return of next_arg()
imap-send: handle missing response codes gracefully
apply: avoid out-of-bounds access in fuzzy_matchlines()
config: flip return value of write_section()
SZEDER Gábor (2):
travis-ci: fix running P4 and Git LFS tests in Linux build jobs
travis-ci: don't build Git for the static analysis job
Simon Ruderich (2):
sequencer.c: check return value of close() in rewrite_file()
wrapper.c: consistently quote filenames in error messages
Stefan Beller (3):
xdiff-interface: export comparing and hashing strings
diff.c: get rid of duplicate implementation
config: document blame configuration
Thomas Braun (1):
completion: add remaining flags to checkout
Todd Zullinger (3):
Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices
Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices
RelNotes: minor typo fixes in 2.15.1 draft
