1Git v2.4.3 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.4.3 5------------------ 6 7 * Error messages from "git branch" called remote-tracking branches as 8 "remote branches". 9 10 * "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a 11 cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead. 12 13 * "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but 14 "git pull --log=20" did not. 15 16 * The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff 17 configuration, but it didn't. 18 19 * The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred 20 pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory 21 enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation 22 size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough. 23 24 * Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more 25 consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative 26 formatter) happier. 27 28 * "git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the 29 command line. 30 31 * Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago 32 unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with 33 resource exhaustion. 34 35 * The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is 36 removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice 37 versa) very well. 38 39 * The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit 40 at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not 41 work with --decorate=full. 42 43 * There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect 44 failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the 45 test was written; turn it into a proper test. 46 47 * core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed 48 to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but 49 the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it. 50 51 * The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb 52 differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and 53 its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink" 54 variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared 55 anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh"). 56 57 * "git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a 58 bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start. 59 60 * "git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by 61 killing the editor. 62 63 * Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone" 64 with native transports. 65 66 * Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git() 67 call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the 68 state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history 69 with LF line ending to make their project portabile across 70 platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with 71 CRLF for their platform. 72 73 * Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support. 74 75Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code 76clean-ups.