1Git v2.10.2 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Fixes since v2.10.1 5------------------- 6 7 * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command 8 has seen a micro-optimization. 9 10 * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of 11 output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which 12 has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody 13 tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though. 14 15 * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default 16 setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into 17 underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason. 18 19 * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does. 20 21 * An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the 22 human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted 23 correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail. 24 25 * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git 26 merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some 27 time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This 28 is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation. 29 30 * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in 31 validating what they are reading is a proper object file and 32 sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has 33 been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting. 34 35 * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that 36 ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored 37 the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the 38 default set of configuration variables to correct this. 39 40 * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors 41 that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions 42 it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed. 43 44 * When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository 45 it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a 46 mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches. 47 This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due 48 to a design bug, which has been fixed. 49 50 * When we started cURL to talk to imap server when a new enough 51 version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add 52 imap(s):// before the destination. To some folks, that didn't work 53 and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead. 54 55 * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how 56 to detect support of SSL by libcurl better. 57 58 * http.emptyauth configuration is a way to allow an empty username to 59 pass when attempting to authenticate using mechanisms like 60 Kerberos. We took an unspecified (NULL) username and sent ":" 61 (i.e. no username, no password) to CURLOPT_USERPWD, but did not do 62 the same when the username is explicitly set to an empty string. 63 64 * "git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem 65 level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and 66 adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores. 67 68 * Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit 69 -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up 70 with what to commit. 71 72 * A stray symbolic link in $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory could make name 73 resolution loop forever, which has been corrected. 74 75 * The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied 76 to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but 77 the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to 78 each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed. 79 80 * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token 81 "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated 82 to describe it. 83 84 * In a worktree connected to a repository elsewhere, created via "git 85 worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion 86 by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in 87 another worktree. However, this also prevented checking out a 88 branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare 89 reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare 90 repository. The check has been corrected to allow it. 91 92 * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork 93 point from the upstream. 94 95 * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant 96 to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles 97 when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not 98 going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully. 99 100 * The Travis CI configuration we ship ran the tests with --verbose 101 option but this risks non-TAP output that happens to be "ok" to be 102 misinterpreted as TAP signalling a test that passed. This resulted 103 in unnecessary failure. This has been corrected by introducing a 104 new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose 105 output separately to the log file. 106 107 * Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with 108 tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to 109 work around them. 110 111Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.