1Git 2.9 Release Notes 2===================== 3 4Backward compatibility note 5--------------------------- 6 7The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and 8"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use 9"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this. 10 11 12Updates since v2.8 13------------------ 14 15UI, Workflows & Features 16 17 * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log" 18 now enables the rename detection by default. 19 20 * The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and 21 there is no good way to override it from the command line. As 22 a special case, giving an empty string as its value now serves 23 as the signal to clear the values specified in various files. 24 25 * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to 26 customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session. 27 28 29Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 30 31 * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build 32 the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate 33 array of strings. 34 (merge 65a3629 mp/upload-pack-use-embedded-args later to maint). 35 36 * A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can 37 easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG. 38 (merge 618310a es/test-gpg-tags later to maint). 39 40 * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a 41 repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git 42 subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch 43 references when we are not in a repository. 44 (merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint). 45 46 47Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 48 49 50Fixes since v2.8 51---------------- 52 53Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance 54track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' 55notes for details). 56 57 * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git 58 config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status 59 when there was no matching configuration. 60 (merge 24990b2 jk/config-get-urlmatch later to maint). 61 62 * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git 63 rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's 64 option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. 65 (merge fc7d47f jk/rev-parse-local-env-vars later to maint). 66 67 * "git index-pack --keep[=<msg>] pack-$name.pack" simply did not work. 68 (merge 0e94242 jc/maint-index-pack-keep later to maint). 69 70 * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't 71 work across remote-curl transport. 72 (merge 754ecb1 gf/fetch-pack-direct-object-fetch later to maint). 73 74 * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff 75 code. 76 (merge 87f1625 rj/xdiff-prepare-plug-leak-on-error-codepath later to maint). 77 78 * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain 79 corner cases in its error codepath. 80 (merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint). 81 82 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates 83 (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint). 84 (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).