1Git v2.8.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.8.3 5------------------ 6 7 * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated 8 to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is 9 verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is 10 adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP. 11 12 * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a 13 dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to 14 customize this behaviour. 15 16 * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose 17 shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher). 18 19 * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as 20 potential error and warn. 21 22 * CI test was taught to build documentation pages. 23 24 * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken, 25 which are all fixed with this. 26 27 * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of 28 tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up 29 with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old 30 commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not 31 described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did 32 not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to 33 penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been 34 updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which 35 is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit 36 in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the 37 commit." 38 39 * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command 40 executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests 41 that capture the standard error stream and check what the command 42 said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running 43 our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output 44 to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs 45 being tested intact. 46 47 * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, 48 but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. 49 50 * When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a 51 faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would 52 result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. 53 This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead. 54 55 * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC 56 variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did 57 not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is 58 known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization. 59 60 * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed. 61 62 * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in 63 dir-diff mode. 64 65 * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?" 66 detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows". 67 68 69Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.