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Git v2.12.2 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.12.1
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* "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
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few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
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* "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
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response, which has been fixed.
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* "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
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correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
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made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
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field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
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conversion).
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* There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
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standard error stream, but we somehow did.
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* A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
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has been plugged.
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* "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not
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report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
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This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
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before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
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* A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
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automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
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default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
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* "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
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value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
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branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
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* A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
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files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
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tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the
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original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to
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be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
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close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
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predictable.
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* "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
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in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
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without checking for overflow.
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* The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
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updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
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* A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
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corrected not to do so.
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* "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly,
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unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
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ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
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cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
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* "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
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when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
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* Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the
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variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing
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misconfiguration.
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* "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
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without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent
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updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
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.git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
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repository. Stop doing so.
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* The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev>
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[[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs
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have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev).
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* The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
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variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
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been fixed.
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This supersedes jc/config-case-cmdline topic that has been discarded.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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