| Git v2.7.3 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.7.2 |
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| * Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the |
| contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their |
| filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree" |
| subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become |
| harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed |
| to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them. |
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| * Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set(); |
| the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when |
| setting a configuration variable failed. |
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| * Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous |
| process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our |
| tests. |
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| * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a |
| rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard |
| characters in a tree object. |
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| * "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature |
| misbehaved when run from a subdirectory. |
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| * The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was |
| broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C. |
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| * "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with |
| its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of |
| what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has |
| been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as |
| the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the |
| system. |
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| * The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit |
| tricky, has been documented a bit better. |
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| * The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is |
| now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is |
| not set. |
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| * Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains |
| arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the |
| tests to sidestep the problem. |
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| * A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the |
| modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands |
| (e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed. |
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| * "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository |
| configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository, |
| but didn't say the reason correctly. |
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| * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack |
| idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the |
| data in the idx. |
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| Also includes documentation and test updates. |