| 1 | Git v2.4.7 Release Notes |
| 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v2.4.6 |
| 5 | ------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * A minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era was fixed; it |
| 8 | complained about a body-less tag object when it lacked a |
| 9 | separator empty line after its header to separate it with a |
| 10 | non-existent body. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method |
| 13 | available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to |
| 14 | talk to one via configuration variables. We now ask libCURL to |
| 15 | always use the most secure authentication method, because the user |
| 16 | can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable |
| 17 | without using configuration variables. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse |
| 20 | yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took |
| 21 | control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but |
| 22 | that isn't what is happening. To that new shell, we leaked |
| 23 | GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local |
| 24 | communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was |
| 25 | spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many |
| 26 | "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints |
| 27 | its output in color by default. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the |
| 30 | fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the |
| 35 | underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still |
| 36 | open. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count". |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * An ancient test framework enhancement to allow color was not |
| 41 | entirely correct; this makes it work even when tput needs to read |
| 42 | from the ~/.terminfo under the user's real HOME directory. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * Fix a small bug in our use of umask() return value. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * "git rebase" did not exit with failure when format-patch it invoked |
| 47 | failed for whatever reason. |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * Disable "have we lost a race with competing repack?" check while |
| 50 | receiving a huge object transfer that runs index-pack. |
| 51 | |
| 52 | Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code |
| 53 | clean-ups. |