| 1 | Git 2.37.2 Release Notes |
| 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated on the 'master' |
| 5 | front since 2.37.1. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Fixes since v2.37.1 |
| 8 | ------------------- |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable, |
| 11 | which shouldn't have. Fixed. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool". |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to |
| 16 | at a bogus place, which as been corrected. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in |
| 19 | the merge-ort strategy. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust |
| 22 | against different end-user vim settings. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the |
| 25 | core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has |
| 26 | a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase" |
| 29 | documentation mark-up have been corrected. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in |
| 32 | front of these messages. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from |
| 35 | the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose |
| 36 | of creating the tree object(s) from its input. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in |
| 39 | its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and |
| 42 | add some missing information to the documentation. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is |
| 45 | shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn |
| 48 | did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which |
| 49 | has been corrected. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in |
| 54 | "git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command |
| 55 | line completion to include them in its offerings. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in |
| 60 | osx-keychain (in contrib/). |
| 61 | |
| 62 | * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against |
| 65 | GC, which has been corrected. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor |
| 68 | remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement |
| 71 | CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been |
| 74 | corrected. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign |
| 77 | while recreating the throw-away merges. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been |
| 80 | corrected. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a |
| 83 | non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information |
| 86 | in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |