1Git v2.12.2 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Fixes since v2.12.1 5------------------- 6 7 * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a 8 few strings were left as translatable by mistake. 9 10 * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates 11 response, which has been fixed. 12 13 * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be 14 correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function 15 made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size 16 field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF 17 conversion). 18 19 * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the 20 standard error stream, but we somehow did. 21 22 * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases 23 has been plugged. 24 25 * "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not 26 report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid. 27 This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop 28 before making such a request), but is the right thing to do. 29 30 * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further 31 automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by 32 default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old. 33 34 * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the 35 value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and 36 branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset. 37 38 * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to 39 files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when 40 tempfile is closed (with a call to ferror()). By that time, the 41 original errno that may have told us what went wrong is likely to 42 be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value. 43 close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least 44 predictable. 45 46 * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names 47 in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them 48 without checking for overflow. 49 50 * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been 51 updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene. 52 53 * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been 54 corrected not to do so. 55 56 * "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly, 57 unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to 58 ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address 59 cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address. 60 61 * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock 62 when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed. 63 64 * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the 65 variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing 66 misconfiguration. 67 68 * "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work 69 without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent 70 updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called 71 .git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a 72 repository. Stop doing so. 73 74 * The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev> 75 [[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs 76 have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev). 77 78 * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration 79 variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have 80 been fixed. 81 This supersedes jc/config-case-cmdline topic that has been discarded. 82 83Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.