1Git v2.8.2 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.8.1 5------------------ 6 7 * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build 8 the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate 9 array of strings. 10 11 * Bunch of tests on "git clone" has been renumbered for better 12 organization. 13 14 * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide 15 configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment. 16 17 * "index-pack --keep=<msg>" was broken since v2.1.0 timeframe. 18 19 * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git 20 config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status 21 when there was no matching configuration. 22 23 * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git 24 rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's 25 option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. 26 27 * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't 28 work across remote-curl transport. 29 30 * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff 31 code. 32 33 * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain 34 corner cases in its error codepath. 35 36 * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a 37 repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git 38 subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch 39 references when we are not in a repository. 40 41 * "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides 42 deleted. 43 44 * "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format 45 when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them. 46 47 * When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding 48 "git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log 49 messages from all the squashed commits. 50 51 * "git merge FETCH_HEAD" dereferenced NULL pointer when merging 52 nothing into an unborn history (which is arguably unusual usage, 53 which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it). 54 55 * Build updates for MSVC. 56 57 * "git diff -M" used to work better when two originally identical 58 files A and B got renamed to X/A and X/B by pairing A to X/A and B 59 to X/B, but this was broken in the 2.0 timeframe. 60 61 * "git send-pack --all <there>" was broken when its command line 62 option parsing was written in the 2.6 timeframe. 63 64 * When running "git blame $path" with unnormalized data in the index 65 for the path, the data in the working tree was blamed, even though 66 "git add" would not have changed what is already in the index, due 67 to "safe crlf" that disables the line-end conversion. It has been 68 corrected. 69 70Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.