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Git v2.9.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.9
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* When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
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connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
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for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
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been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
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* The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
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string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
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--no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
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a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
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"auto".
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* "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
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option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
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bitmap index.
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* "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
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by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
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file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
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which has been fixed.
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* The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
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configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
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typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
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* "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
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documented now.
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* The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
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referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
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* "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
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creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
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reflog was truncated.
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* The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
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who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
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* A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
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on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
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* "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
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hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
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use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
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* Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
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* "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
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tree".
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* Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
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the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
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* "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
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cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
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* "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
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experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
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as "git diff" output.
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* "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width
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relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
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draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It
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also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
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to the right border.
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* The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
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be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
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* "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
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bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
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data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
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* Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
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GPG signature have been documented.
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* Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
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that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
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be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
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of the submodules are not prepared for.
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* Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
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to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
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* Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
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functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
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corrected.
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* The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
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prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
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bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking
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+0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
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of aborting.
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* One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
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been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
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command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
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* t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
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is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
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* A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
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report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
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been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
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paths that are _inside_.
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* The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
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documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
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Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
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instead.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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