| 1 | Git v2.12.3 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v2.12.2 |
| 5 | ------------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from |
| 10 | real_path() to a strbuf has been added. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so |
| 13 | old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not |
| 14 | so ancient. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the |
| 17 | older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become |
| 18 | possible. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | * Teach the "debug" helper used in the test framework that allows a |
| 21 | command to run under "gdb" to make the session interactive. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * "git repack --depth=<n>" for a long time busted the specified depth |
| 24 | when reusing delta from existing packs. This has been corrected. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently |
| 27 | error out, but didn't. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where |
| 30 | they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the |
| 33 | code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in |
| 34 | disambiguating. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other |
| 37 | side does not allow such an request, failed without much |
| 38 | explanation. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that |
| 41 | becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http |
| 44 | transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to |
| 45 | enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to |
| 46 | give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * NO_PTHREADS build has been broken for some time; now fixed. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also |
| 51 | v2.10.2). |
| 52 | |
| 53 | * A few unterminated here documents in tests were fixed, which in |
| 54 | turn revealed incorrect expectations the tests make. These tests |
| 55 | have been updated. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name |
| 58 | begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it |
| 59 | confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with |
| 60 | an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive |
| 61 | pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access |
| 62 | (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). |
| 63 | |
| 64 | Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |