| Git v2.4.2 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.4.1 |
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| * "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that |
| is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs |
| was very inefficient. |
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| * "hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to |
| take a really long object type name. |
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| * "git rebase --quiet" was not quite quiet when there is nothing to |
| do. |
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| * The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect. |
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| * "filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an |
| incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that |
| munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed". |
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| * "git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6 |
| configuration (regression in 2.4). |
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| * "git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working |
| tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important |
| as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for |
| conflict resolution. |
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| * We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in |
| (typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks |
| for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to |
| support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it |
| without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has |
| become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the |
| users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the |
| path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would |
| interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may |
| not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin |
| and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin |
| and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH). |
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| Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code |
| clean-ups. |