| 1 | Git 2.38.2 Release Notes |
| 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This is to backport various fixes accumulated during the development |
| 5 | towards Git 2.39, the next feature release. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Fixes since v2.38.1 |
| 9 | ------------------- |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid |
| 12 | in C99. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory |
| 15 | accesses, which has been corrected. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch |
| 18 | refspec, which has been corrected. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin" |
| 21 | options used together without a good reason. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used |
| 26 | from the memory, which has been fixed. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit |
| 29 | itself, which has been corrected. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | * In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a |
| 32 | merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and |
| 33 | led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can |
| 36 | find expected error messages in the log. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a |
| 39 | substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read |
| 42 | from "ssh-keygen". |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure, |
| 45 | which has been corrected. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have |
| 48 | been clarified. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | * "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable |
| 51 | cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * The code to clean temporary object directories (used for |
| 54 | quarantine) tried to remove them inside its signal handler, which |
| 55 | was a no-no. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly |
| 58 | said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | * GitHub CI settings have been adjusted to recent reality, merging |
| 61 | and cherry-picking necessary topics that have been prepared for Git |
| 62 | 2.39. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | * `git rebase --update-refs` would delete references when all `update-ref` |
| 65 | commands in the sequencer were removed, which has been corrected. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |