| Git 2.21 Release Notes |
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| Backward Compatibility Notes |
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| Updates since v2.20 |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * The "http.version" configuration variable can be used with recent |
| enough cURL library to force the version of HTTP used to talk when |
| fetching and pushing. |
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| * Small fixes and features for fast-export and fast-import, mostly on |
| the fast-export side. |
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| * "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully |
| qualified refname and not clear what the end user meant. The |
| codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also |
| guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed |
| object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under |
| refs/tags/). |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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| * Code clean-up with optimization for the codepath that checks |
| (non-)existence of loose objects. |
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| * More codepaths become aware of working with in-core repository |
| instance other than the default "the_repository". |
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| Fixes since v2.20 |
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| * Updates for corner cases in merge-recursive. |
| (merge cc4cb0902c en/merge-path-collision later to maint). |
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| * "git checkout frotz" (without any double-dash) avoids ambiguity by |
| making sure 'frotz' cannot be interpreted as a revision and as a |
| path at the same time. This safety has been updated to check also |
| a unique remote-tracking branch 'frotz' in a remote, when dwimming |
| to create a local branch 'frotz' out of a remote-tracking branch |
| 'frotz' from a remote. |
| (merge be4908f103 nd/checkout-dwim-fix later to maint). |
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| * Refspecs configured with "git -c var=val clone" did not propagate |
| to the resulting repository, which has been corrected. |
| (merge 7eae4a3ac4 sg/clone-initial-fetch-configuration later to maint). |
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| * A properly configured username/email is required under |
| user.useConfigOnly in order to create commits; now "git stash" |
| (even though it creates commit objects to represent stash entries) |
| command is exempt from the requirement. |
| (merge 3bc2111fc2 sd/stash-wo-user-name later to maint). |
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| * The http-backend CGI process did not correctly clean up the child |
| processes it spawns to run upload-pack etc. when it dies itself, |
| which has been corrected. |
| (merge 02818a98d7 mk/http-backend-kill-children-before-exit later to maint). |
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| * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
