| Git v2.11.1 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.11 |
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| * The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS. |
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| * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0 |
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| * Update the isatty() emulation for Windows by updating the previous |
| hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC runtime. |
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| * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like |
| "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!". |
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| * An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used |
| to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a |
| submodule directory there, which has been fixed.. |
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| * The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the |
| superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed |
| out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small |
| project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable |
| number of refs. |
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| * "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't |
| "--dry-run" in the submodules. |
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| * The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order, |
| and was unstable. |
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| * mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply |
| to built-in tools, but now it does. |
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| * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob. |
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| * Fix a corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in |
| during 2.10 development cycle. |
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| * Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails |
| to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message |
| only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to |
| be reported with something sensible. |
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| * When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later, |
| it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash" |
| misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very |
| similar content is added. |
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| * "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option. |
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| * "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from |
| a subdirectory, which has been fixed. |
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| * "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index |
| ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not |
| change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody |
| needed it so far. |
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| * A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but |
| path normalization logic was unaware of it. |
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| * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since |
| we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without |
| invoking "git rebase", but it didn't. |
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| * The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git |
| mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff. |
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| * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back |
| to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when |
| the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user |
| did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt |
| the operation. |
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| * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation. |
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| * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage |
| objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot |
| have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn |
| made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This |
| has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when |
| appending such a path to the colon-separated list. |
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| * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:" |
| before the custom message programs give, when they want to die |
| with a message about wrong command line options followed by the |
| standard usage string. |
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| * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository, |
| but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that |
| corresponds to a packfile does not. |
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| * Fix for NDEBUG builds. |
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| * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully |
| specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream' |
| push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors. |
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| * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link. |
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| * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running |
| "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This |
| has been fixed. |
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| * "git p4" that tracks multiple p4 paths imported a single changelist |
| that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed |
| by many empty commits. This has been fixed. |
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| * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been |
| fixed. |
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| * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http |
| rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that |
| will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition |
| and abort the transfer. |
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| * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in |
| the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is |
| more widely known when conversion fails from/to it. |
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| * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support. |
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| * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by |
| TravisCI. |
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| * A few git-svn updates. |
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| * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across |
| three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration. |
| Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and |
| pack.compression variables the same way. |
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| * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes |
| tree, which has been fixed. |
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| * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales |
| lacked documentation update, which has been corrected. |
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| * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed. |
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| * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack |
| everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning |
| when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap, |
| leading to disabling further "gc". |
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| * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and |
| failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff |
| driver configuration. |
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| * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path> |
| pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files. |
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| * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect |
| count when squashing more than 10 commits. |
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| * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has |
| been corrected to error out with a message. |
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| * Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as |
| a PRE regexp engine. |
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| * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and |
| took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree |
| structure. This has been fixed. |
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| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |