| 1 | Git v2.56 Release Notes |
| 2 | ======================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | UI, Workflows & Features |
| 5 | ------------------------ |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * Advice shown by "git status" when the local branch is behind or has |
| 8 | diverged from its push branch has been updated to suggest "git pull |
| 9 | <remote> <branch>". |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * The handling of promisor-remote protocol capability has been updated |
| 12 | to allow the other side to add to the list of promisor remotes via the |
| 13 | 'promisor.acceptFromServerURL' configuration variable. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * The 'ort' merge backend has been hardened against corrupt trees by |
| 16 | ensuring it aborts under appropriate error conditions. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | * The `fetch.followRemoteHEAD` configuration variable has been added to |
| 19 | provide a default for the per-remote `remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD` |
| 20 | setting. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * "git log --follow" has been updated to better handle non-linear |
| 23 | history, in which the path being tracked gets renamed differently in |
| 24 | multiple history lines. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * The "git repo info" command has been taught new keys to output both |
| 27 | absolute and relative paths for "gitdir" and "commondir", supported by |
| 28 | a new path-formatting helper extracted from "git rev-parse". |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * When 'git push origin/main' or 'git branch origin main' is run, the |
| 31 | command is now recognized as a potential typo, and advice has been |
| 32 | added to offer a typo fix. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * The 'git refs' toolbox has been extended with new 'create', 'delete', |
| 35 | 'update', and 'rename' subcommands to create, delete, update, and |
| 36 | rename references, respectively. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * The experimental 'git history' command has been taught a new 'drop' |
| 39 | subcommand to remove a commit, with its descendants replayed onto its |
| 40 | parent. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * The alignment of commit object name abbreviations in 'git blame' |
| 43 | output has been optimized to reserve a column for marks (caret, |
| 44 | question mark, or asterisk) only when such marks are actually shown. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * Option parsing with 'git rev-parse --parseopt' and in most 'git' |
| 47 | subcommands has been updated to exit with 0 (instead of 129) when the |
| 48 | help option ('-h' or '--help') is requested directly by the user, |
| 49 | aligning with standard Unix convention. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | * The '[includeIf "condition"]' conditional inclusion facility for |
| 52 | configuration files has been taught to use the location of the |
| 53 | worktree in its condition. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * The usage string and SYNOPSIS for 'git fast-export' have been |
| 56 | standardized to make them consistent with each other and with other |
| 57 | commands. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | * 'git log --graph' has been modified to visually distinguish parentless |
| 60 | 'root' commits (and commits that become roots due to history |
| 61 | simplification) by indenting them, preventing them from appearing |
| 62 | falsely related to unrelated commits rendered immediately above them. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | * Userdiff patterns for Swift have been added, with support for |
| 65 | Swift-specific constructs such as attributes, modifiers, failable |
| 66 | initializers, and generics. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | * Configuration file locking has been updated to retry for a short |
| 69 | period, avoiding failures when multiple processes attempt to update |
| 70 | the configuration simultaneously. |
| 71 | |
| 72 | * The 'remote-object-info' command has been added to 'git cat-file |
| 73 | --batch-command', allowing clients to request object metadata |
| 74 | (currently size) from a remote server via protocol v2 without |
| 75 | downloading the entire object. Format placeholders are dynamically |
| 76 | filtered on the client based on server-advertised capabilities, |
| 77 | returning empty strings for inapplicable or unsupported fields. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
| 81 | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 82 | |
| 83 | * The refactoring of 'setup.c' has been continued to drop remaining |
| 84 | global state (`git_work_tree_cfg`, `is_bare_repository_cfg`), updating |
| 85 | `is_bare_repository()` to no longer implicitly rely on |
| 86 | `the_repository`. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | * Project-specific configuration for b4 has been introduced, and the |
| 89 | documentation has been updated to recommend using it as a |
| 90 | streamlined method for submitting patches. |
| 91 | |
| 92 | * The default format path of git cat-file --batch has been optimized |
| 93 | to use strbuf_add_oid_hex() and strbuf_add_uint() instead of |
| 94 | strbuf_addf(), yielding a noticeable speedup. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | * Commands that list branches and tags (like git branch and git tag) |
| 97 | have been optimized to pass the namespace prefix when initializing |
| 98 | their ref iterator, avoiding a loose-ref scaling regression in |
| 99 | repositories with many unrelated loose references. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | * The packed object source has been refactored into a proper struct |
| 102 | odb_source. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | * The global configuration variables protect_hfs and protect_ntfs have |
| 105 | been migrated into struct repo_config_values to tie them to |
| 106 | per-repository configuration state. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | * The trailer sections in SubmittingPatches have been updated to |
| 109 | encourage use of standard trailers. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | * The documentation in SubmittingPatches has been updated to clarify how |
| 112 | patch contributors should respond to design and viability critiques, |
| 113 | and how the resolution of such critiques should be recorded in the |
| 114 | final commit messages. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | * The pack-objects command has been updated to support reachability |
| 117 | bitmaps and delta-islands concurrently with the `--path-walk` option, |
| 118 | allowing faster packaging by falling back to path-walk when bitmaps |
| 119 | cannot fully satisfy the request. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | * Documentation on community contribution guidelines has been updated to |
| 122 | encourage replying to review comments before rerolling, and to advise |
| 123 | a default limit of at most one reroll per day to give reviewers across |
| 124 | different time zones enough time to participate. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | * The lazy priority queue optimization pattern (deferring actual removal |
| 127 | in 'prio_queue_get()' to allow get+put fusion) has been folded |
| 128 | directly into 'prio_queue' itself, speeding up commit traversal |
| 129 | workflows and simplifying callers. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | * The 'reprepare()' callback for object database sources has been |
| 132 | generalized into a 'prepare()' callback with an optional flush cache |
| 133 | flag, and a new 'odb_prepare()' wrapper has been introduced to allow |
| 134 | pre-opening object database sources. |
| 135 | |
| 136 | * The 'whence' field in 'struct object_info' has been removed. The |
| 137 | backend-specific object information retrieval has been refactored into |
| 138 | an opt-in 'struct object_info_source' structure. |
| 139 | |
| 140 | * A racy build failure under Meson has been corrected by ensuring that |
| 141 | the generated header file 'hook-list.h' is built before compiling |
| 142 | files in 'builtin_sources' that depend on it. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | * The repository discovery and repository configuration phases, which |
| 145 | were previously intertwined in 'setup.c', have been split. Repository |
| 146 | discovery has been updated to populate a 'struct repo_discovery' |
| 147 | without modifying the repository state, which is then taken by |
| 148 | repository configuration to initialize the repository, paving the way |
| 149 | for clean unification of repository configuration. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | * The 'SubmittingPatches' document has been updated to explicitly |
| 152 | describe the expectation for contributors to retract or abandon their |
| 153 | patch series when they are no longer pursuing it. |
| 154 | |
| 155 | * The contributor guide has been updated to advise new contributors to |
| 156 | trim irrelevant quoted text when replying to review comments, matching |
| 157 | the existing advice given to reviewers. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | * The build system has been updated to support building universal macOS |
| 160 | binaries when 'Rust' is enabled, by compiling separate static archives |
| 161 | for each target triple listed in 'RUST_TARGETS' and combining them |
| 162 | using the macOS 'lipo' tool. The 'git-credential-osxkeychain' helper |
| 163 | has been updated to link against '$(RUST_LIB)' when 'Rust' is enabled. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | * The test suite has been updated to use the 'test_grep' helper instead |
| 166 | of bare 'grep' for test assertions, allowing file contents to be |
| 167 | printed on failure for easier debugging. A new 'greplint' linter has |
| 168 | been introduced to detect and prevent new bare 'grep' assertions from |
| 169 | being added to the test suite. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | * The pipelines in 't1410-reflog.sh' have been replaced with the |
| 172 | 'test_stdout_line_count' helper to avoid suppressing the exit code of |
| 173 | 'git' commands, ensuring failures are not hidden from the test suite. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | * The cache-scanning loop in 'next_cache_entry()' has been optimized |
| 176 | to avoid rescanning already-unpacked index entries, preventing a |
| 177 | quadratic performance slow-down when diffing the working tree |
| 178 | against a commit with a pathspec matching early index entries. |
| 179 | |
| 180 | * The global configuration variable 'ignore_case' (representing the |
| 181 | 'core.ignorecase' configuration) has been migrated into 'struct |
| 182 | repo_config_values' to tie it to a specific repository instance. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | * The performance of ref updates and reads using the 'reftable' backend |
| 185 | in the presence of many deletion tombstone records has been optimized |
| 186 | by removing the tombstone suppression flag from the merged iterator |
| 187 | and instead skipping tombstones at higher-level call sites where |
| 188 | iteration bounds are known. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | * Various code paths have been hardened against potential NULL-pointer |
| 191 | dereferences and invalid file descriptor accesses flagged by |
| 192 | Coverity. |
| 193 | |
| 194 | * The in-tree 'b4' cover letter template has been updated to include the |
| 195 | 'change-id' trailer, ensuring that sent tags generated by 'b4' contain |
| 196 | the required tracking information for subsequent runs. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | * 'git receive-pack' has been refactored to use ODB transaction |
| 199 | interfaces instead of directly managing 'tmp_objdir' for staging |
| 200 | incoming objects, bringing it closer to being ODB backend agnostic. |
| 201 | |
| 202 | * The test script 't/t9811-git-p4-label-import.sh' has been |
| 203 | modernized to use 'test_path_is_file' and 'test_path_is_missing' |
| 204 | instead of raw 'test -f' and '! test -f' calls. |
| 205 | |
| 206 | * A redundant strbuf_reset() call in the 'HAVE_GETDELIM' path of |
| 207 | strbuf_getwholeline() has been removed, as getdelim() overwrites the |
| 208 | buffer and the length is updated afterward. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | * The object database enumeration interface odb_for_each_object() has |
| 211 | been taught to accept object filters, allowing the underlying backends |
| 212 | to optimize the traversal by using reachability bitmaps when |
| 213 | available. 'git cat-file --batch-all-objects' has been updated to use |
| 214 | this generic interface, simplifying its code and avoiding direct |
| 215 | access to ODB backend internals. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | * The test script 't/t1100-commit-tree-options.sh' has been modernized |
| 218 | by converting test cases to the modern style (using single quotes and |
| 219 | tab indentation) and moving the creation of the expected file inside |
| 220 | the setup test so it runs under the protection of the test harness. |
| 221 | |
| 222 | * The test script 't/t7614-merge-signoff.sh' has been updated to avoid |
| 223 | suppressing the exit code of 'git' commands in a pipe. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | * The 'git rev-list --no-walk' command has been corrected to restore |
| 226 | pathspec filtering, which was lost when the streaming walk was |
| 227 | refactored. |
| 228 | |
| 229 | * The ref subsystem and the worktree API have been refactored to pass a |
| 230 | repository pointer down the call chain, allowing them to drop |
| 231 | references to the global 'the_repository' variable. As part of this, |
| 232 | the handling of the 'core.packedRefsTimeout' configuration has been |
| 233 | moved into the per-repository ref store structure. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | * 'git branch --contains' and 'git for-each-ref --contains' have been |
| 236 | optimized to use the memoized commit traversal previously used only by |
| 237 | 'git tag --contains', significantly speeding up connectivity checks |
| 238 | across many candidate refs with shared history. |
| 239 | |
| 240 | * The passing of push destination specifications in the 'remote-curl' |
| 241 | helper has been simplified by removing the explicit 'count' parameter |
| 242 | and relying on the NULL-termination of the array. |
| 243 | |
| 244 | * The dependency on the global 'the_repository' variable in the |
| 245 | 'refspec.c' API has been removed by passing the hash algorithm |
| 246 | explicitly to refspec-parsing functions and storing it in 'struct |
| 247 | refspec'. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | * The enumeration of untracked and ignored files in 'git status' has |
| 250 | been optimized by avoiding quadratic complexity when inserting into |
| 251 | string lists, reducing the construction cost from O(n^2) to O(n log |
| 252 | n). |
| 253 | |
| 254 | * The copy_file() and copy_file_with_time() functions have been |
| 255 | refactored to take a repository parameter, allowing the removal of the |
| 256 | implicit dependency on the global 'the_repository' variable in |
| 257 | 'copy.c'. |
| 258 | |
| 259 | * The tempfile and lockfile APIs have been refactored to stop depending |
| 260 | on the 'the_repository' global variable, and their callers have been |
| 261 | updated to use the repository-aware variants. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | * The 'trust_executable_bit' (coming from the 'core.filemode' |
| 264 | configuration) has been migrated into 'struct repo_config_values' to |
| 265 | tie it to a specific repository instance. |
| 266 | |
| 267 | * The 'excludes_file' and various other global configuration variables |
| 268 | (including 'editor_program', 'pager_program', 'askpass_program', and |
| 269 | 'push_default') have been migrated into the per-repository structure. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | * The 'git stash push' command has been optimized to avoid unnecessary |
| 272 | sparse index expansion when pathspecs are wholly inside the |
| 273 | sparse-checkout cone. Also, a potential out-of-bounds read in the |
| 274 | sparse-index expansion check helper pathspec_needs_expanded_index() |
| 275 | has been fixed by consistently using the parsed, prefixed path. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | * The logic to write loose objects has been refactored and moved from |
| 278 | 'object-file.c' to the loose backend source file 'odb/source-loose.c', |
| 279 | making the loose backend more self-contained. This is achieved by |
| 280 | first refactoring force_object_loose() to use generic ODB write |
| 281 | interfaces instead of loose-backend internals. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | |
| 284 | Fixes since v2.55 |
| 285 | ----------------- |
| 286 | |
| 287 | * A regression in the error diagnosis code for invalid .git files has |
| 288 | been fixed, avoiding a potential NULL-pointer crash when reporting |
| 289 | that a .git file does not point to a valid repository. |
| 290 | (merge 54a441bcea jk/setup-gitfile-diag-fix later to maint). |
| 291 | |
| 292 | * Support for hashing loose or packed objects larger than 4GB on Windows |
| 293 | and other LLP64 platforms has been improved by converting object header |
| 294 | buffers and data-handling functions from 'unsigned long' to 'size_t'. |
| 295 | (merge d99e13d0be po/hash-object-size-t later to maint). |
| 296 | |
| 297 | * The display of the rebase todo list in "git status" has been |
| 298 | improved to correctly abbreviate object IDs for more commands and |
| 299 | avoid misinterpreting refs as object IDs. |
| 300 | (merge 6f34e5f9e3 pw/status-rebase-todo later to maint). |
| 301 | |
| 302 | * Reference backend configuration has been updated to load lazily to |
| 303 | avoid recursive calls during repository initialization when 'onbranch' |
| 304 | configuration conditions are evaluated. This has also fixed a memory |
| 305 | leak and allowed the unused `chdir_notify_reparent()` machinery to be |
| 306 | dropped. |
| 307 | (merge d6522d01df ps/refs-onbranch-fixes later to maint). |
| 308 | |
| 309 | * The connectivity check has been refactored to search for promisor |
| 310 | objects in a generic way using the object database interface, |
| 311 | rather than iterating packfiles directly. This allows connectivity |
| 312 | checks to work properly in repositories that do not use packfiles. |
| 313 | (merge 66ee9cb930 ps/connected-generic-promisor-checks later to maint). |
| 314 | |
| 315 | * A test checking interactions between git rebase --quit and |
| 316 | autostash in t3420-rebase-autostash.sh has been corrected to use |
| 317 | test_path_is_missing instead of ! grep on a file that shouldn't |
| 318 | exist in the conflicted state. |
| 319 | (merge eaad121fef sg/t3420-do-not-grep-in-missing-file later to maint). |
| 320 | |
| 321 | * The GPG and SSH signature parsing code has been corrected to strip |
| 322 | carriage return characters only when they immediately precede line |
| 323 | feeds, instead of unconditionally stripping all carriage returns. |
| 324 | (merge 5dea8b690b ad/gpg-strip-cr-before-lf later to maint). |
| 325 | |
| 326 | * A memory leak in the 'reftable_writer_new()' initialization function |
| 327 | has been fixed by delaying the allocation of 'struct reftable_writer' |
| 328 | until after input options are validated. |
| 329 | (merge c6fb3b9c3e jk/reftable-leakfix later to maint). |
| 330 | |
| 331 | * A memory leak in the '--base' handling of 'git format-patch' has been |
| 332 | plugged, and the leak reporting of the test suite when running under a |
| 333 | TAP harness has been improved. |
| 334 | (merge 973a0373ff jk/format-patch-leakfix later to maint). |
| 335 | |
| 336 | * A write file stream resource leak has been fixed as part of a code |
| 337 | cleanup. |
| 338 | (merge ebb4d2ffa3 jc/history-message-prep-fix later to maint). |
| 339 | |
| 340 | * Various memory leaks in the Bloom-filter code paths that are exposed |
| 341 | when running tests with the 'GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS=1' |
| 342 | environment variable have been plugged. |
| 343 | (merge 459088ec2e jk/bloom-leak-fixes later to maint). |
| 344 | |
| 345 | * The wincred credential helper has been updated to avoid memory |
| 346 | corruption when erasing credentials and to prevent silent |
| 347 | credential loss when storing OAuth tokens, by correcting buffer |
| 348 | allocations and arguments passed to safe-CRT APIs. |
| 349 | (merge f635ab9ab4 js/wincred-fixes later to maint). |
| 350 | |
| 351 | * Various code paths that initialize a cryptographic hash context but |
| 352 | bail out or finish without calling 'git_hash_final()' have been taught |
| 353 | to call 'git_hash_discard()' to release allocated resources, fixing |
| 354 | memory leaks when Git is built with non-default backends like |
| 355 | 'OpenSSL' or 'libgcrypt'. |
| 356 | (merge 600588d2aa jk/hash-algo-leak-fixes later to maint). |
| 357 | |
| 358 | * Various resource leaks, invalid file descriptor closures, and process |
| 359 | handle ownership issues flagged by Coverity have been fixed. |
| 360 | (merge 9184231173 js/coverity-fixes later to maint). |
| 361 | |
| 362 | * Dockerized CI jobs running in private GitHub repositories have been |
| 363 | adjusted to use explicit process and file limits, preventing resource |
| 364 | exhaustion errors on private runners. |
| 365 | (merge bad766fbac js/ci-dockerized-pid-limit later to maint). |
| 366 | |
| 367 | * Various test scripts have been updated to clean up large temporary |
| 368 | files and repositories, reducing peak disk usage during testing. |
| 369 | Also, expensive tests have been disabled on platforms that lack |
| 370 | sufficient resources (like 32-bit platforms and Windows CI runners), |
| 371 | and the long test suite has been enabled in GitLab CI. |
| 372 | (merge 84248444ad ps/t-fixes-for-git-test-long later to maint). |
| 373 | |
| 374 | * The UTF-8 precomposition wrapper on macOS has been updated to use a |
| 375 | flexible array member to represent the name of a directory entry, |
| 376 | preventing fortified libc checks from failing when the name is |
| 377 | reallocated to be larger than 'NAME_MAX' bytes. |
| 378 | (merge 1eb281159f ih/precompose-flex-array later to maint). |
| 379 | |
| 380 | * The 'git_hash_*()' wrappers have been updated to be used consistently |
| 381 | across the codebase instead of direct calls to members of 'struct |
| 382 | git_hash_algo', and 'git_hash_discard()' has been made idempotent to |
| 383 | simplify cleanups. |
| 384 | (merge 9e396aa553 jk/git-hash-cleanups later to maint). |
| 385 | |
| 386 | * The sideband demultiplexer has been updated to recognize ANSI SGR |
| 387 | escape sequences that use colon-separated subfields (e.g., for |
| 388 | 256-color or true-color codes). |
| 389 | (merge 3792b2aea4 mm/sideband-ansi-sgr-colon-fix later to maint). |
| 390 | |
| 391 | * The 'reftable' code has been hardened against corrupted tables by |
| 392 | fixing out-of-bounds writes, out-of-bounds reads, and abort calls |
| 393 | during parsing. |
| 394 | (merge ca93c27328 ps/reftable-hardening later to maint). |
| 395 | |
| 396 | * A description in the release notes for Git 2.55.0 has been |
| 397 | retroactively updated to clarify that Rust support is enabled by |
| 398 | default, but still optional, and will become mandatory in Git 3.0. |
| 399 | (merge 18b2009d14 jc/relnotes-2.55-rust-fix later to maint). |
| 400 | |
| 401 | * The early-exit optimization in 'paint_down_to_common()' has been |
| 402 | gated on the queue being generation-ordered, fixing a bug where |
| 403 | 'git merge-base' (without '--all') could return incorrect results |
| 404 | on repositories with v1 commit graphs and clock skew. |
| 405 | (merge ae68032a8d kk/commit-reach-find-all-fix later to maint). |
| 406 | |
| 407 | * The client-side parser of the server-advertised bundle-URI list has |
| 408 | been updated to drain the remaining response in order to avoid |
| 409 | protocol desynchronization when the server sends a misconfigured list. |
| 410 | Also, the server-side has been taught to omit empty configuration |
| 411 | values instead of sending invalid key-value lines. |
| 412 | (merge 50de1169e4 tc/bundle-uri-empty-fix later to maint). |
| 413 | |
| 414 | * The 'topo_levels' slab was propagated only to the topmost layer of a |
| 415 | split commit-graph chain, causing topological levels for commits in |
| 416 | base layers to be recomputed during incremental writes. This has been |
| 417 | corrected. |
| 418 | |
| 419 | * The stream-based object signature verification path has been |
| 420 | corrected to avoid double-closing the stream on read errors. |
| 421 | (merge cfd52a74a0 ps/odb-stream-double-close-fix later to maint). |
| 422 | |
| 423 | * The '-i' shorthand for the '--init' option, which was accepted by the |
| 424 | 'git submodule update' command until it was broken in a modernization |
| 425 | of the option-parsing code, has been restored. |
| 426 | (merge ff1da37f58 dm/submodule-update-i-shorthand later to maint). |
| 427 | |
| 428 | * An accidental use of the '%zu' format specifier in 'git |
| 429 | submodule--helper' has been corrected to use 'PRIuMAX' and cast the |
| 430 | value to 'uintmax_t' to avoid portability issues. |
| 431 | (merge 3279c13c00 jc/submodule-helper-avoid-zu later to maint). |
| 432 | |
| 433 | * The rebase post-rewrite notes-copying logic has been corrected. When |
| 434 | a commit is dropped during rebase (e.g., because its changes are |
| 435 | already upstream), it is no longer recorded as rewritten, preventing |
| 436 | its notes from being copied to an unrelated commit. |
| 437 | (merge 42554b78fd pw/rebase-drop-notes-with-commit later to maint). |
| 438 | |
| 439 | * A few memory problems in the Rust interface to C hash functions have |
| 440 | been corrected. The 'Clone' implementation of 'CryptoHasher' now |
| 441 | properly initializes the context before cloning, and its 'Drop' |
| 442 | implementation now discards the context to prevent leaks. |
| 443 | |
| 444 | * The object ID shortening and linking in the 'commitdiff' view of |
| 445 | 'gitweb' has been corrected to work even when the index line carries |
| 446 | a trailing file mode. |
| 447 | (merge fda513d6fe tl/gitweb-shorten-hashes-with-modes later to maint). |
| 448 | |
| 449 | * When the push remote is specified as a URL, the fetch refspec of a |
| 450 | uniquely matching configured remote is now used to find and update |
| 451 | the remote-tracking branch (e.g., '@{push}'). |
| 452 | |
| 453 | * Traversals with '--exclude-first-parent-only' have been corrected |
| 454 | to properly stop after the first parent even when it has already |
| 455 | been marked as 'SEEN'. |
| 456 | (merge 47382f7398 jc/exclude-first-parent-seen later to maint). |
| 457 | |
| 458 | * A segfault when 'git clone --revision' talks to a server that does not |
| 459 | support protocol v2 (falling back to protocol v0) has been corrected. |
| 460 | (merge 1034ad383f af/clone-revision-v0-segfault-fix later to maint). |
| 461 | |
| 462 | * rewrites_release() in 'remote.c' has been updated to free 'struct |
| 463 | rewrite' instances, their '.instead_of' arrays, and their contents. |
| 464 | (merge dcef3bf041 jc/remote-insteadof-leakfix later to maint). |
| 465 | |
| 466 | * The remote-matching logic for submodules has been corrected to resolve |
| 467 | 'url.*.insteadOf' aliases before comparing the inventoried URL from |
| 468 | '.gitmodules' with the URLs of configured remotes. |