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84 lines
3.1 KiB
Git 2.9 Release Notes |
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Backward compatibility note |
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The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and |
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"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use |
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"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this. |
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Updates since v2.8 |
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UI, Workflows & Features |
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* The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log" |
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now enables the rename detection by default. |
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* The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and |
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there is no good way to override it from the command line. As |
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a special case, giving an empty string as its value now serves |
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as the signal to clear the values specified in various files. |
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* A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to |
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customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session. |
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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* The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build |
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the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate |
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array of strings. |
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(merge 65a3629 mp/upload-pack-use-embedded-args later to maint). |
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* A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can |
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easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG. |
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(merge 618310a es/test-gpg-tags later to maint). |
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* The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a |
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repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git |
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subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch |
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references when we are not in a repository. |
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(merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint). |
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
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Fixes since v2.8 |
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance |
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' |
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notes for details). |
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* "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git |
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config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status |
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when there was no matching configuration. |
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(merge 24990b2 jk/config-get-urlmatch later to maint). |
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* The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git |
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rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's |
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option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. |
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(merge fc7d47f jk/rev-parse-local-env-vars later to maint). |
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* "git index-pack --keep[=<msg>] pack-$name.pack" simply did not work. |
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(merge 0e94242 jc/maint-index-pack-keep later to maint). |
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* Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't |
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work across remote-curl transport. |
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(merge 754ecb1 gf/fetch-pack-direct-object-fetch later to maint). |
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* A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff |
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code. |
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(merge 87f1625 rj/xdiff-prepare-plug-leak-on-error-codepath later to maint). |
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* strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain |
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corner cases in its error codepath. |
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(merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint). |
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates |
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(merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint). |
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(merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).
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