| Git v2.4.1 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.4 |
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| * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory |
| showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the |
| directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, |
| when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" |
| and compare the file with the file with the same name in the |
| directory, instead of refusing to run. |
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| * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" |
| that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email |
| entries in it. |
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| * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost |
| the daylight-saving-time offset. |
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| * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no |
| object type that is "bl". |
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| * Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files |
| that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the |
| beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration |
| files already. |
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| * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a |
| slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code |
| becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning. |
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| * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the |
| ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but |
| the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the |
| root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to |
| do, but still valid). |
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| Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code |
| clean-ups. |