1Git v2.3.1 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.3 5---------------- 6 7 * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it" 8 interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when 9 the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the 10 user could have made was to choose nothing. 11 12 * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory 13 when the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. 14 15 * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant 16 to the "log" command. 17 18 * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author 19 name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been 20 reworded to avoid misunderstanding. 21 22 * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the 23 dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other 24 side. 25 26 * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the 27 only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in 28 the --raw format. 29 30 * Fix a misspelled conditional that is always true. 31 32 * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory 33 would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file. 34 35 * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option 36 easily misunderstood. 37 38 * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication 39 (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based 40 Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. 41 42 * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce 43 broken patches. 44 45 * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did 46 not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree 47 files and failed to do so for whatever reason. 48 49 * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it 50 tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD". 51 52Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.