| 1 | Git v2.8.2 Release Notes |
| 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v2.8.1 |
| 5 | ------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build |
| 8 | the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate |
| 9 | array of strings. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * Bunch of tests on "git clone" has been renumbered for better |
| 12 | organization. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide |
| 15 | configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * "index-pack --keep=<msg>" was broken since v2.1.0 timeframe. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git |
| 20 | config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status |
| 21 | when there was no matching configuration. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git |
| 24 | rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's |
| 25 | option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't |
| 28 | work across remote-curl transport. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff |
| 31 | code. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain |
| 34 | corner cases in its error codepath. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a |
| 37 | repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git |
| 38 | subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch |
| 39 | references when we are not in a repository. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides |
| 42 | deleted. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format |
| 45 | when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding |
| 48 | "git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log |
| 49 | messages from all the squashed commits. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | * "git merge FETCH_HEAD" dereferenced NULL pointer when merging |
| 52 | nothing into an unborn history (which is arguably unusual usage, |
| 53 | which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it). |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * Build updates for MSVC. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * "git diff -M" used to work better when two originally identical |
| 58 | files A and B got renamed to X/A and X/B by pairing A to X/A and B |
| 59 | to X/B, but this was broken in the 2.0 timeframe. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * "git send-pack --all <there>" was broken when its command line |
| 62 | option parsing was written in the 2.6 timeframe. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | * When running "git blame $path" with unnormalized data in the index |
| 65 | for the path, the data in the working tree was blamed, even though |
| 66 | "git add" would not have changed what is already in the index, due |
| 67 | to "safe crlf" that disables the line-end conversion. It has been |
| 68 | corrected. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |