| 1 | Git 2.37.3 Release Notes |
| 2 | ======================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated on the 'master' |
| 5 | front since 2.37.2. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Fixes since v2.37.2 |
| 8 | ------------------- |
| 9 | |
| 10 | * The build procedure for Windows that uses CMake has been updated to |
| 11 | pick up the shell interpreter from local installation location. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | * Conditionally allow building Python interpreter on Windows |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * Fix to lstat() emulation on Windows. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * Older gcc with -Wall complains about the universal zero initializer |
| 18 | "struct s = { 0 };" idiom, which makes developers' lives |
| 19 | inconvenient (as -Werror is enabled by DEVELOPER=YesPlease). The |
| 20 | build procedure has been tweaked to help these compilers. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * Plug memory leaks in the failure code path in the "merge-ort" merge |
| 23 | strategy backend. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * Avoid repeatedly running getconf to ask libc version in the test |
| 26 | suite, and instead just as it once per script. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * Platform-specific code that determines if a directory is OK to use |
| 29 | as a repository has been taught to report more details, especially |
| 30 | on Windows. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | * "vimdiff3" regression has been corrected. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode |
| 35 | before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has |
| 36 | hid broken tree objects from the checking logic. This has been |
| 37 | corrected, but to help exiting projects with broken tree objects |
| 38 | that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this |
| 39 | code detects has been demoted to "info" for now. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * Fixes to sparse index compatibility work for "reset" and "checkout" |
| 42 | commands. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * Documentation for "git add --renormalize" has been improved. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |