The latest maintenance release Git v2.19.2 is now available at the
usual places. This is a collection of small fixes that have been
accumulated on the primary development track, merged on top of
v2.19.1 released earlier in the year. On the 'master' front, we are
nearing the upcoming future release, by the way.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.19.2'
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 = https://github.com/gitster/git
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Git v2.19.2 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.19.1
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* "git interpret-trailers" and its underlying machinery had a buggy
code that attempted to ignore patch text after commit log message,
which triggered in various codepaths that will always get the log
message alone and never get such an input.
* "git rebase -i" did not clear the state files correctly when a run
of "squash/fixup" is aborted and then the user manually amended the
commit instead, which has been corrected.
* When fsmonitor is in use, after operation on submodules updates
.gitmodules, we lost track of the fact that we did so and relied on
stale fsmonitor data.
* Fix for a long-standing bug that leaves the index file corrupt when
it shrinks during a partial commit.
* Further fix for O_APPEND emulation on Windows
* A corner case bugfix in "git rerere" code.
* "git add ':(attr:foo)'" is not supported and is supposed to be
rejected while the command line arguments are parsed, but we fail
to reject such a command line upfront.
* "git rebase" etc. in Git 2.19 fails to abort when given an empty
commit log message as result of editing, which has been corrected.
* The code to backfill objects in lazily cloned repository did not
work correctly, which has been corrected.
* Update error messages given by "git remote" and make them consistent.
* "git update-ref" learned to make both "--no-deref" and "--stdin"
work at the same time.
* Recently added "range-diff" had a corner-case bug to cause it
segfault, which has been corrected.
* The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
incompatible features are in use in the repository.
* The mailmap file update.
* The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
used for the first run, which has been corrected.
* A corner-case bugfix.
* A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects
will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating
repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been
optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob
objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that
no blobs are needed.
* The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
* "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
parent commits, which has been corrected.
* The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
directory.
* A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
* Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
* The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
has been corrected.
* "git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
does not pass fsck.
* Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
* The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
file is getting prepared for the transition.
* Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
'--verbose-log' option.
* A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
loop while processing truncated loose objects.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.19.1 are as follows:
Alexander Pyhalov (1):
t7005-editor: quote filename to fix whitespace-issue
Andreas Heiduk (6):
doc: clarify boundaries of 'git worktree list --porcelain'
doc: fix ASCII art tab spacing
doc: fix inappropriate monospace formatting
doc: fix descripion for 'git tag --format'
doc: fix indentation of listing blocks in gitweb.conf.txt
doc: fix formatting in git-update-ref
Ben Peart (1):
git-mv: allow submodules and fsmonitor to work together
Brandon Williams (1):
config: document value 2 for protocol.version
Daniels Umanovskis (3):
doc: move git-rev-parse from porcelain to plumbing
doc: move git-get-tar-commit-id to plumbing
doc: move git-cherry to plumbing
David Zych (1):
doc: clarify gitcredentials path component matching
Derrick Stolee (6):
commit-graph: update design document
test-repository: properly init repo
commit-graph: not compatible with replace objects
commit-graph: not compatible with grafts
commit-graph: not compatible with uninitialized repo
commit-graph: close_commit_graph before shallow walk
Elijah Newren (7):
Remove superfluous trailing semicolons
t4200: demonstrate rerere segfault on specially crafted merge
rerere: avoid buffer overrun
update-ref: fix type of update_flags variable to match its usage
update-ref: allow --no-deref with --stdin
sequencer: fix --allow-empty-message behavior, make it smarter
commit: fix erroneous BUG, 'multiple renames on the same target? how?'
Frederick Eaton (3):
git-archimport.1: specify what kind of Arch we're talking about
git-column.1: clarify initial description, provide examples
git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable
Jeff Hostetler (2):
t0051: test GIT_TRACE to a windows named pipe
mingw: fix mingw_open_append to work with named pipes
Jeff King (16):
trailer: use size_t for string offsets
trailer: use size_t for iterating trailer list
trailer: pass process_trailer_opts to trailer_info_get()
interpret-trailers: tighten check for "---" patch boundary
interpret-trailers: allow suppressing "---" divider
pretty, ref-filter: format %(trailers) with no_divider option
sequencer: ignore "---" divider when parsing trailers
append_signoff: use size_t for string offsets
reopen_tempfile(): truncate opened file
config.mak.dev: add -Wformat-security
receive-pack: update comment with check_everything_connected
run-command: mark path lookup errors with ENOENT
upload-pack: fix broken if/else chain in config callback
t1450: check large blob in trailing-garbage test
check_stream_sha1(): handle input underflow
cat-file: handle streaming failures consistently
Johannes Schindelin (8):
rebase -i --autosquash: demonstrate a problem skipping the last squash
rebase -i: be careful to wrap up fixup/squash chains
pack-objects: fix typo 'detla' -> 'delta'
pack-objects (mingw): demonstrate a segmentation fault with large deltas
pack-objects (mingw): initialize `packing_data` mutex in the correct spot
repack: point out a bug handling stale shallow info
shallow: offer to prune only non-existing entries
repack -ad: prune the list of shallow commits
Johannes Sixt (2):
diff: don't attempt to strip prefix from absolute Windows paths
t3404-rebase-interactive: test abbreviated commands
Jonathan Nieder (2):
mailmap: consistently normalize brian m. carlson's name
git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive
Jonathan Tan (4):
fetch-object: unify fetch_object[s] functions
fetch-object: set exact_oid when fetching
fetch-pack: avoid object flags if no_dependents
fetch-pack: exclude blobs when lazy-fetching trees
Junio C Hamano (5):
CodingGuidelines: document the API in *.h files
receive: denyCurrentBranch=updateinstead should not blindly update
cocci: simplify "if (++u > 1)" to "if (u++)"
fsck: s/++i > 1/i++/
Git 2.19.2
Martin Ågren (5):
git-commit-graph.txt: fix bullet lists
git-commit-graph.txt: typeset more in monospace
git-commit-graph.txt: refer to "*commit*-graph file"
Doc: refer to the "commit-graph file" with dash
t1400: drop debug `echo` to actually execute `test`
Matthew DeVore (2):
Documentation/git-log.txt: do not show --exclude-promisor-objects
exclude-promisor-objects: declare when option is allowed
Michael Witten (3):
docs: typo: s/go/to/
docs: graph: remove unnecessary `graph_update()' call
docs: typo: s/isimilar/similar/
Mihir Mehta (1):
doc: fix a typo and clarify a sentence
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
add: do not accept pathspec magic 'attr'
config.txt: correct the note about uploadpack.packObjectsHook
Noam Postavsky (1):
log: fix coloring of certain octopus merge shapes
René Scharfe (1):
sequencer: use return value of oidset_insert()
SZEDER Gábor (12):
Documentation/git.txt: clarify that GIT_TRACE=/path appends
t3701-add-interactive: tighten the check of trace output
t1700-split-index: drop unnecessary 'grep'
t0090: disable GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX for the test checking split index
t1700-split-index: document why FSMONITOR is disabled in this test script
split-index: add tests to demonstrate the racy split index problem
t1700-split-index: date back files to avoid racy situations
split-index: count the number of deleted entries
split-index: don't compare cached data of entries already marked for split index
split-index: smudge and add racily clean cache entries to split index
split-index: BUG() when cache entry refers to non-existing shared entry
test-lib: introduce the '-V' short option for '--verbose-log'
Sam McKelvie (1):
rev-parse: --show-superproject-working-tree should work during a merge
Saulius Gurklys (1):
doc: fix small typo in git show-branch
Sebastian Staudt (1):
travis-ci: no longer use containers
Shulhan (1):
builtin/remote: quote remote name on error to display empty name
Stefan Beller (4):
refs.c: migrate internal ref iteration to pass thru repository argument
refs.c: upgrade for_each_replace_ref to be a each_repo_ref_fn callback
string-list: remove unused function print_string_list
strbuf.h: format according to coding guidelines
Tao Qingyun (3):
refs: docstring typo
builtin/branch.c: remove useless branch_get
branch: trivial style fix
Thomas Gummerer (4):
.gitattributes: add conflict-marker-size for relevant files
linear-assignment: fix potential out of bounds memory access
t5551: move setup code inside test_expect blocks
t5551: compare sorted cookies files
Tim Schumacher (1):
Documentation/Makefile: make manpage-base-url.xsl generation quieter
Torsten Bögershausen (2):
Make git_check_attr() a void function
path.c: char is not (always) signed
Uwe Kleine-König (1):
howto/using-merge-subtree: mention --allow-unrelated-histories
