The latest maintenance release Git v2.38.2 is now available at the
usual places. There is nothing exciting here, it mostly is to
backport/backmerge the accumulated fixes, including GitHub CI
integration, made during 2.39 development cycle to the 2.38
maintenance track.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.38.2'
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 2.38.2 Release Notes
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This is to backport various fixes accumulated during the development
towards Git 2.39, the next feature release.
Fixes since v2.38.1
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* Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
in C99.
* The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory
accesses, which has been corrected.
* "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch
refspec, which has been corrected.
* "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin"
options used together without a good reason.
* Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation.
* "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used
from the memory, which has been fixed.
* "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit
itself, which has been corrected.
* In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a
merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and
led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected.
* Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can
find expected error messages in the log.
* Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a
substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access.
* The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read
from "ssh-keygen".
* "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure,
which has been corrected.
* Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
been clarified.
* "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
* The code to clean temporary object directories (used for
quarantine) tried to remove them inside its signal handler, which
was a no-no.
* "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly
said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected.
* GitHub CI settings have been adjusted to recent reality, merging
and cherry-picking necessary topics that have been prepared for Git
2.39.
* `git rebase --update-refs` would delete references when all `update-ref`
commands in the sequencer were removed, which has been corrected.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Changes since v2.38.1 are as follows:
Alejandro R. Sedeño (1):
git-compat-util.h: GCC deprecated message arg only in GCC 4.5+
Alex Henrie (1):
fsmonitor--daemon: don't translate literal commands
Derrick Stolee (1):
bundle-uri: fix technical doc issues
Jeff Hostetler (1):
config.mak.dev: disable suggest braces error on old clang versions
Jeff King (12):
fsck: free tree buffers after walking unreachable objects
fsck: turn off save_commit_buffer
parse_object_buffer(): respect save_commit_buffer
clone: allow "--bare" with "-o"
remote: handle rename of remote without fetch refspec
sequencer: detect author name errors in read_author_script()
test-submodule: inline resolve_relative_url() function
multi-pack-index: avoid writing to global in option callback
commit: avoid writing to global in option callback
attr: drop DEBUG_ATTR code
dir: use fspathncmp() in pl_hashmap_cmp()
Makefile: force -O0 when compiling with SANITIZE=leak
Jiang Xin (4):
github-actions: run gcc-8 on ubuntu-20.04 image
ci: remove the pipe after "p4 -V" to catch errors
ci: use the same version of p4 on both Linux and macOS
ci: install python on ubuntu
Johannes Altmanninger (1):
sequencer: avoid dropping fixup commit that targets self via commit-ish
Johannes Schindelin (4):
merge-ort: fix segmentation fault in read-only repositories
merge-ort: return early when failing to write a blob
ci: avoid using deprecated {up,down}load-artifacts Action
ci: use a newer `github-script` version
John Cai (1):
tmp-objdir: skip clean up when handling a signal
Junio C Hamano (10):
environ: document GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
environ: explain Boolean environment variables
environ: GIT_FLUSH should be made a usual Boolean
environ: simplify description of GIT_INDEX_FILE
environ: GIT_INDEX_VERSION affects not just a new repository
branch: do not fail a no-op --edit-desc
SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
Downmerge a handful of topics for 2.38.2
Downmerge a bit more for 2.38.2
Git 2.38.2
Noah Betzen (1):
mergetool.txt: typofix 'overwriten' -> 'overwritten'
Oscar Dominguez (1):
ci(main): upgrade actions/checkout to v3
Phillip Wood (3):
mailinfo -b: fix an out of bounds access
ssh signing: return an error when signature cannot be read
t3435: remove redundant test case
René Scharfe (4):
gc: simplify maintenance_task_pack_refs()
t/lib-httpd: pass LANG and LC_ALL to Apache
bisect--helper: plug strvec leak
archive: deduplicate verbose printing
Rubén Justo (2):
ref-filter.c: fix a leak in get_head_description
branch: description for non-existent branch errors
Sergey Organov (3):
diff-merges: cleanup func_by_opt()
diff-merges: cleanup set_diff_merges()
diff-merges: clarify log.diffMerges documentation
Taylor Blau (7):
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: fix typo
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.txt: clarify expire behavior
midx.c: prevent `expire` from removing the cruft pack
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with `repack --batch-size=0`
midx.c: replace `xcalloc()` with `CALLOC_ARRAY()`
midx.c: remove unnecessary loop condition
midx.c: avoid cruft packs with non-zero `repack --batch-size`
Victoria Dye (2):
read-cache: avoid misaligned reads in index v4
rebase --update-refs: avoid unintended ref deletion
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (9):
test-lib: have SANITIZE=leak imply TEST_NO_MALLOC_CHECK
CodingGuidelines: update for C99
CodingGuidelines: mention dynamic C99 initializer elements
CodingGuidelines: allow declaring variables in for loops
CodingGuidelines: mention C99 features we can't use
CodingGuidelines: recommend against unportable C99 struct syntax
CI: upgrade to macos-12, and pin OSX version
CI: don't explicitly pick "bash" shell outside of Windows, fix regression
CI: migrate away from deprecated "set-output" syntax
Đoàn Trần Công Danh (1):
Makefile: clarify runtime relative gitexecdir
