| Git 2.38.2 Release Notes |
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| This is to backport various fixes accumulated during the development |
| towards Git 2.39, the next feature release. |
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| Fixes since v2.38.1 |
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| * Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid |
| in C99. |
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| * The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory |
| accesses, which has been corrected. |
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| * "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch |
| refspec, which has been corrected. |
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| * "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin" |
| options used together without a good reason. |
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| * Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation. |
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| * "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used |
| from the memory, which has been fixed. |
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| * "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit |
| itself, which has been corrected. |
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| * In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a |
| merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and |
| led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected. |
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| * Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can |
| find expected error messages in the log. |
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| * Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a |
| substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access. |
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| * The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read |
| from "ssh-keygen". |
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| * "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure, |
| which has been corrected. |
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| * Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have |
| been clarified. |
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| * "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable |
| cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected. |
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| * The code to clean temporary object directories (used for |
| quarantine) tried to remove them inside its signal handler, which |
| was a no-no. |
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| * "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly |
| said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected. |
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| * GitHub CI settings have been adjusted to recent reality, merging |
| and cherry-picking necessary topics that have been prepared for Git |
| 2.39. |
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| * `git rebase --update-refs` would delete references when all `update-ref` |
| commands in the sequencer were removed, which has been corrected. |
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| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
