| Git v2.6.5 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.6.4 |
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| * Because "test_when_finished" in our test framework queues the |
| clean-up tasks to be done in a shell variable, it should not be |
| used inside a subshell. Add a mechanism to allow 'bash' to catch |
| such uses, and fix the ones that were found. |
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| * Update "git subtree" (in contrib/) so that it can take whitespaces |
| in the pathnames, not only in the in-tree pathname but the name of |
| the directory that the repository is in. |
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| * Cosmetic improvement to lock-file error messages. |
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| * mark_tree_uninteresting() has code to handle the case where it gets |
| passed a NULL pointer in its 'tree' parameter, but the function had |
| 'object = &tree->object' assignment before checking if tree is |
| NULL. This gives a compiler an excuse to declare that tree will |
| never be NULL and apply a wrong optimization. Avoid it. |
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| * The helper used to iterate over loose object directories to prune |
| stale objects did not closedir() immediately when it is done with a |
| directory--a callback such as the one used for "git prune" may want |
| to do rmdir(), but it would fail on open directory on platforms |
| such as WinXP. |
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| * "git p4" used to import Perforce CLs that touch only paths outside |
| the client spec as empty commits. It has been corrected to ignore |
| them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a |
| backward compatibility knob. |
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| * The exit code of git-fsck did not reflect some types of errors |
| found in packed objects, which has been corrected. |
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| * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column" |
| (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices |
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| * Improve error reporting when SMTP TLS fails. |
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| * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not |
| in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the |
| codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed |
| and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts |
| questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is |
| obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function |
| in non-strict mode. |
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| * "git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status. |
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| * History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an |
| annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an |
| old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days. |
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| Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code |
| clean-ups. |