1Git v2.11.1 Release Notes 2========================= 3 4Fixes since v2.11 5----------------- 6 7 * The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS. 8 9 * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0 10 11 * Update the isatty() emulation for Windows by updating the previous 12 hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC runtime. 13 14 * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like 15 "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!". 16 17 * An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used 18 to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a 19 submodule directory there, which has been fixed.. 20 21 * The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the 22 superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed 23 out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small 24 project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable 25 number of refs. 26 27 * "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't 28 "--dry-run" in the submodules. 29 30 * The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order, 31 and was unstable. 32 33 * mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply 34 to built-in tools, but now it does. 35 36 * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob. 37 38 * Fix a corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in 39 during 2.10 development cycle. 40 41 * Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails 42 to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message 43 only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to 44 be reported with something sensible. 45 46 * When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later, 47 it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash" 48 misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very 49 similar content is added. 50 51 * "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option. 52 53 * "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from 54 a subdirectory, which has been fixed. 55 56 * "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index 57 ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not 58 change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody 59 needed it so far. 60 61 * A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but 62 path normalization logic was unaware of it. 63 64 * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since 65 we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without 66 invoking "git rebase", but it didn't. 67 68 * The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git 69 mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff. 70 71 * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back 72 to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when 73 the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user 74 did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt 75 the operation. 76 77 * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation. 78 79 * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage 80 objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot 81 have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn 82 made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This 83 has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when 84 appending such a path to the colon-separated list. 85 86 * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:" 87 before the custom message programs give, when they want to die 88 with a message about wrong command line options followed by the 89 standard usage string. 90 91 * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository, 92 but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that 93 corresponds to a packfile does not. 94 95 * Fix for NDEBUG builds. 96 97 * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully 98 specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream' 99 push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors. 100 101 * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link. 102 103 * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running 104 "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This 105 has been fixed. 106 107 * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist 108 that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed 109 by many empty commits. This has been fixed. 110 111 * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been 112 fixed. 113 114 * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http 115 rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that 116 will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition 117 and abort the transfer. 118 119 120Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.