| Git 2.15 Release Notes |
| ====================== |
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| Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. |
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| * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for |
| 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a |
| more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing |
| users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be |
| turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of |
| this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in the upcoming |
| release. |
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| * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup |
| sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that |
| happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). |
| We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there |
| might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are |
| greatly appreciated. |
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| Updates since v2.14 |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * An example that is now obsolete has been removed from a sample hook, |
| and an old example in it that added a sign-off manually has been |
| improved to use the interpret-trailers command. |
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| * The advice message given when "git rebase" stops for conflicting |
| changes has been improved. |
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| * The "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) learned the "--overwrite" |
| option to allow overwriting existing recorded resolutions. |
| (merge ad53bf79aa rg/rerere-train-overwrite later to maint). |
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| * "git contacts" (in contrib/) now lists the address on the |
| "Reported-by:" trailer to its output, in addition to those on |
| S-o-b: and other trailers, to make it easier to notify (and thank) |
| the original bug reporter. |
| (merge 09ac673788 eb/contacts-reported-by later to maint). |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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| * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. |
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| * Start using selected c99 constructs in small, stable and |
| essentialpart of the system to catch people who care about |
| older compilers that do not grok them. |
| |
| * The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long |
| latency give a "delayed" response. |
| |
| * Many uses of comparision callback function the hashmap API uses |
| cast the callback function type when registering it to |
| hashmap_init(), which defeats the compile time type checking when |
| the callback interface changes (e.g. gaining more parameters). |
| The callback implementations have been updated to take "void *" |
| pointers and cast them to the type they expect instead. |
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| * Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the |
| build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a |
| hand-rolled substitute. |
| (merge 90dbf226ba js/git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows later to maint). |
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| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
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| Fixes since v2.14 |
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| * "%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI |
| color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now |
| honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness |
| of the output medium. |
| (merge 11b087adfd jk/ref-filter-colors later to maint). |
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| * The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be |
| interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but |
| weren't, which has been fixed. |
| (merge 8d1549643e jc/http-sslkey-and-ssl-cert-are-paths later to maint). |
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| * Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have |
| been fixed. |
| (merge de239446b6 jk/reflog-walk later to maint). |
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| * "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not |
| edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been |
| corrected. |
| (merge bc17f35f8c ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix later to maint). |
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| * When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the |
| project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory. |
| (merge 46a13857fc hb/gitweb-project-list later to maint). |
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| * Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned |
| and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it |
| around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test. |
| (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint). |
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| * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed |
| that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache |
| daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to |
| ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF. |
| (merge 1f180e5eb9 dl/credential-cache-socket-in-xdg-cache later to maint). |
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| * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which |
| has been fixed---it now shows nothing. |
| (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint). |
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| * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who |
| actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an |
| editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable |
| pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, |
| and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. |
| (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint). |
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| * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. |
| (merge 5b114f3bb0 rs/bswap-ubsan-fix later to maint). |
| (merge 168e63554c rs/move-array later to maint). |
| (merge 268ba20110 rs/stat-data-unaligned-reads-fix later to maint). |
| (merge 78e7b98f45 jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint). |
| (merge c7b0780545 rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup later to maint). |
| (merge c1e860f1dc js/run-process-parallel-api-fix later to maint). |
| (merge 7a40a95eb4 cc/ref-is-hidden-microcleanup later to maint). |
| (merge c0bb6d9cef ah/doc-wserrorhighlight later to maint). |
| (merge edd64ef4f7 dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup later to maint). |
| (merge fa64a2fdbe jt/subprocess-handshake later to maint). |
| (merge 0ba9c9a0fb jb/t8008-cleanup later to maint). |
| (merge a7c28a2161 jt/t1450-fsck-corrupt-packfile later to maint). |