| Git v2.9.4 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.9.3 |
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| * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at |
| the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not |
| built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git" |
| potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone |
| programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that |
| calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to |
| make it harder to make mistakes. |
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| * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with |
| merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it |
| shouldn't. |
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| * The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format |
| --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone) |
| has been added. |
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| * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow |
| ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the |
| receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be |
| discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility |
| to the users. It does so now. |
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| * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a |
| hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been |
| corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is |
| shared with. |
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| * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments |
| the same way as existing mainstream platforms. The code now moves |
| "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/") |
| that strips the trailing slash of '/'. |
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| * The "t/" hierarchy is prone to get an unusual pathname; "make test" |
| has been taught to make sure they do not contain paths that cannot |
| be checked out on Windows (and the mechanism can be reusable to |
| catch pathnames that are not portable to other platforms as need |
| arises). |
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| * When "git merge-recursive" works on history with many criss-cross |
| merges in "verbose" mode, the names the command assigns to the |
| virtual merge bases could have overwritten each other by unintended |
| reuse of the same piece of memory. |
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| * "git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice |
| message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything |
| that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is |
| an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on. The |
| advice message has been squelched in this case. |
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| * "git difftool" by default ignores the error exit from the backend |
| commands it spawns, because often they signal that they found |
| differences by exiting with a non-zero status code just like "diff" |
| does; the exit status codes 126 and above however are special in |
| that they are used to signal that the command is not executable, |
| does not exist, or killed by a signal. "git difftool" has been |
| taught to notice these exit status codes. |
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| * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored, |
| which has been corrected. |
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| * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration |
| variable definition at the end of the search order was described in |
| git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely |
| place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot |
| override, and if so how?" |
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| * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open |
| a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then |
| finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either |
| removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a |
| subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the |
| subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is |
| made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has |
| the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag |
| to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT). |
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| * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name |
| begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it |
| confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with |
| an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive |
| pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access |
| (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). |
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| Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |