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Git v2.6.3 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.6.2
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* The error message from "git blame --contents --reverse" incorrectly
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talked about "--contents --children".
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* "git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which
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obviously would not work well when there are too many of them.
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* The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive
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filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem
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cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a
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randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its
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ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the
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cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free.
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This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of
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borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat.
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* When the "git am" command was reimplemented in C, "git am -3" had a
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small regression where it is aborted in its error handling codepath
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when underlying merge-recursive failed in some ways.
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* The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read
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list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they
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only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading.
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* A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string
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to note where options should come on their command line, but we
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spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days.
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* The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate
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work trees created via "git worktree add".
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* When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is
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lost. It now is saved to a file in $GIT_DIR and is shown next time
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the "gc --auto" is run.
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* Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents
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in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM.
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* Recent update to "rebase -i" that tries to sanity check the edited
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insn sheet before it uses it has become too picky on Windows where
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CRLF left by the editor is turned into a trailing CR on the line
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read via the "read" built-in command.
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* "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the
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end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the
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packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that
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cannot remove a file that is still open.
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* Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create
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a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported.
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* The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it
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logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser
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of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API.
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* Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo
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backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository
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format version "1", with an extension mechanism.
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* "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling
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(e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you
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cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune").
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* The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end
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of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that,
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but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash.
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* "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in
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grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no
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grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is
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quiescent.
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* A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit
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object header, which is fixed.
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* "git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line
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argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0.
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* Merging a branch that removes a path and another that changes the
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mode bits on the same path should have conflicted at the path, but
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it didn't and silently favoured the removal.
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* "git imap-send" did not compile well with older version of cURL library.
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* The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl.
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* It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git
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worktree add" as a local source of "git clone".
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* When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL,
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Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the
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same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line
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at a time to work around the problem.
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* We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the
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list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to
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correctly initialize the list.
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* "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string
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"HEAD", which has been corrected.
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* "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it
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needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do.
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Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
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clean-ups.
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