| 1 | Git v2.15.1 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Fixes since v2.15 |
| 5 | ----------------- |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * TravisCI build updates. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to |
| 10 | judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as |
| 11 | "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard |
| 12 | output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the |
| 13 | latter, which has been fixed. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" |
| 16 | feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, which |
| 17 | has been corrected. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to |
| 20 | implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair |
| 21 | of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the |
| 24 | HEAD points at, which have been fixed. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when |
| 27 | asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been corrected. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a |
| 30 | separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and |
| 31 | listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the |
| 32 | directory itself as ignored. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep |
| 35 | --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git |
| 38 | commands from subdirectories via "exec" instruction has been fixed. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run |
| 41 | outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation |
| 42 | and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in |
| 43 | such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} |
| 48 | configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". |
| 49 | |
| 50 | * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function |
| 51 | sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, |
| 52 | which has been fixed. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now |
| 55 | tested just like Mingw builds. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed |
| 58 | immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at |
| 59 | around Git 2.13). |
| 60 | |
| 61 | * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved |
| 62 | to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are |
| 63 | currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). |
| 64 | |
| 65 | * Updates from GfW project. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | * "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that |
| 68 | is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has |
| 69 | been corrected. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have |
| 72 | been fixed. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | * Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed. |
| 75 | |
| 76 | * We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system |
| 77 | that does not help anything; it has been corrected. |
| 78 | |
| 79 | * Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been |
| 80 | improved. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | * An ancient bug in "git apply --ignore-space-change" codepath has |
| 83 | been fixed. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | * There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a |
| 86 | section of a configuration section, which has been corrected. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |