| Git 2.43.1 Release Notes |
| ======================== |
| |
| There is nothing exciting to see here. Relative to Git 2.43, this |
| release contains the fixes that have already been merged to the |
| 'master' branch of the development towards the next major release. |
| |
| Fixes since Git 2.43.0 |
| ---------------------- |
| |
| * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test |
| suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected. |
| |
| * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our |
| (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version |
| requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow |
| simplifying our implementation. |
| |
| * Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records |
| information about commits that are lost from the object store, |
| which has negative performance implications. The default has been |
| flipped to disable this pessimization. |
| |
| * Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or |
| archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. |
| |
| * trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed |
| authentication material, which has been corrected. |
| |
| * The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new |
| paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice |
| an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when |
| rename detection was enabled. |
| |
| * The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too |
| loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the |
| extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been |
| tightened up. |
| |
| * "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed |
| to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was |
| fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout". |
| |
| * "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs |
| even when BISECT_START file is gone. |
| |
| * Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables |
| specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected. |
| |
| * Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git |
| show-ref". |
| |
| * The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid |
| recursion. |
| |
| * "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message, |
| which has been corrected. |
| |
| * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better |
| with the reftable backend. |
| |
| * "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and |
| being rebased when both are in effect at the same time. |
| cf. <xmqqil76kyov.fsf@gitster.g> |
| |
| * "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command |
| line parameters, which has been corrected. |
| |
| * "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the |
| patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been |
| corrected. |
| |
| * Unlike other environment variables that took the usual |
| true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1, |
| which has been corrected. |
| |
| * Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch |
| --recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core |
| commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary |
| data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected. |
| |
| Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. |
