The latest maintenance release Git v2.37.3 is now available at
the usual places. Updating to this version is not urgent, but
if you were affected by regressions in v2.37.0, it may be worth
your time to do so.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.37.3'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
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 2.37.3 Release Notes
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This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated on the 'master'
front since 2.37.2.
Fixes since v2.37.2
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* The build procedure for Windows that uses CMake has been updated to
pick up the shell interpreter from local installation location.
* Conditionally allow building Python interpreter on Windows
* Fix to lstat() emulation on Windows.
* Older gcc with -Wall complains about the universal zero initializer
"struct s = { 0 };" idiom, which makes developers' lives
inconvenient (as -Werror is enabled by DEVELOPER=YesPlease). The
build procedure has been tweaked to help these compilers.
* Plug memory leaks in the failure code path in the "merge-ort" merge
strategy backend.
* Avoid repeatedly running getconf to ask libc version in the test
suite, and instead just as it once per script.
* Platform-specific code that determines if a directory is OK to use
as a repository has been taught to report more details, especially
on Windows.
* "vimdiff3" regression has been corrected.
* "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode
before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has
hid broken tree objects from the checking logic. This has been
corrected, but to help exiting projects with broken tree objects
that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this
code detects has been demoted to "info" for now.
* Fixes to sparse index compatibility work for "reset" and "checkout"
commands.
* Documentation for "git add --renormalize" has been improved.
Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.37.2 are as follows:
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (1):
cmake: support local installations of git
Felipe Contreras (7):
mergetools: vimdiff: fix comment
mergetools: vimdiff: make vimdiff3 actually work
mergetools: vimdiff: silence annoying messages
mergetools: vimdiff: fix for diffopt
mergetools: vimdiff: rework tab logic
mergetools: vimdiff: fix single window layouts
mergetools: vimdiff: simplify tabfirst
Glen Choo (1):
Documentation/git-reflog: remove unneeded \ from \{
Jeff King (4):
config.mak.dev: squelch -Wno-missing-braces for older gcc
tree-walk: add a mechanism for getting non-canonicalized modes
fsck: actually detect bad file modes in trees
fsck: downgrade tree badFilemode to "info"
Johannes Schindelin (11):
windows: include the Python bits when building Git for Windows
mingw: remove unneeded `NO_GETTEXT` directive
mingw: remove unneeded `NO_CURL` directive
lstat(mingw): correctly detect ENOTDIR scenarios
merge-ort: clean up after failed merge
merge-ort: do leave trace2 region even if checkout fails
setup: fix some formatting
setup: prepare for more detailed "dubious ownership" messages
mingw: provide details about unsafe directories' ownership
mingw: be more informative when ownership check fails on FAT32
mingw: handle a file owned by the Administrators group correctly
Junio C Hamano (2):
A handful more topics from the 'master' front for 2.37.3
Git 2.37.3
Philip Oakley (1):
doc add: renormalize is not idempotent for CRCRLF
Phillip Wood (1):
tests: cache glibc version check
Victoria Dye (4):
checkout: fix nested sparse directory diff in sparse index
oneway_diff: handle removed sparse directories
cache.h: create 'index_name_pos_sparse()'
unpack-trees: unpack new trees as sparse directories
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (1):
hook API: don't segfault on strbuf_addf() to NULL "out"
