1Git v2.5.2 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.5.1 5------------------ 6 7 * "git init empty && git -C empty log" said "bad default revision 'HEAD'", 8 which was found to be a bit confusing to new users. 9 10 * The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of 11 a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer 12 block. 13 14 * When re-priming the cache-tree opportunistically while committing 15 the in-core index as-is, we mistakenly invalidated the in-core 16 index too aggressively, causing the experimental split-index code 17 to unnecessarily rewrite the on-disk index file(s). 18 19 * "git archive" did not use zip64 extension when creating an archive 20 with more than 64k entries, which nobody should need, right ;-)? 21 22 * The code in "multiple-worktree" support that attempted to recover 23 from an inconsistent state updated an incorrect file. 24 25 * "git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain 26 when one is given. 27 28 * Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and 29 "pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo' 30 as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these 31 keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a 32 git command'. These warning messages have been squelched. 33 34 * We recently rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl, which made it 35 necessary to have Perl to build Git. Reduced Perl dependency by 36 rewriting it again using sed. 37 38 * t1509 test that requires a dedicated VM environment had some 39 bitrot, which has been corrected. 40 41 * strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary 42 strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated. 43 44 * The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to 45 the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while 46 calling die(). 47 48 * When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno 49 leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and 50 then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses 51 O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the 52 packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the 53 object does not exist in that packfile to the caller. 54 55 * An off-by-one error made "git remote" to mishandle a remote with a 56 single letter nickname. 57 58 * A handful of codepaths that used to use fixed-sized arrays to hold 59 pathnames have been corrected to use strbuf and other mechanisms to 60 allow longer pathnames without fearing overflows. 61 62Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code 63clean-ups.