1Git v2.9.1 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.9 5---------------- 6 7 * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a 8 connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around 9 for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has 10 been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. 11 12 * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format 13 string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring 14 --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to 15 a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as 16 "auto". 17 18 * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" 19 option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the 20 bitmap index. 21 22 * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited 23 by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire 24 file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, 25 which has been fixed. 26 27 * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, 28 configuration variables and environment variables are consistently 29 typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. 30 31 * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is 32 documented now. 33 34 * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when 35 referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. 36 37 * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch 38 creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the 39 reflog was truncated. 40 41 * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those 42 who uses "set -u", which has been fixed. 43 44 * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data 45 on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so. 46 47 * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape 48 hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to 49 use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead. 50 51 * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/) 52 53 * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working 54 tree". 55 56 * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with 57 the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK). 58 59 * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git 60 cherry-pick A..B" didn't. 61 62Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.