1Git v2.6.4 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.6.3 5------------------ 6 7 * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which 8 upset some linkers. 9 10 * Add support for talking http/https over socks proxy. 11 12 * Portability fix for Windows, which may rewrite $SHELL variable using 13 non-POSIX paths. 14 15 * We now consistently allow all hooks to ignore their standard input, 16 rather than having git complain of SIGPIPE. 17 18 * Fix shell quoting in contrib script. 19 20 * Test portability fix for a topic in v2.6.1. 21 22 * Allow tilde-expansion in some http config variables. 23 24 * Give a useful special case "diff/show --word-diff-regex=." as an 25 example in the documentation. 26 27 * Fix for a corner case in filter-branch. 28 29 * Make git-p4 work on a detached head. 30 31 * Documentation clarification for "check-ignore" without "--verbose". 32 33 * Just like the working tree is cleaned up when the user cancelled 34 submission in P4Submit.applyCommit(), clean up the mess if "p4 35 submit" fails. 36 37 * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in 38 the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. 39 40 * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory 41 for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be 42 copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already 43 special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try 44 computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may 45 not even exist or may be a directory. 46 47 * There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable 48 from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing. 49 50 * Allow "git interpret-trailers" to run outside of a Git repository. 51 52 * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we 53 are on an orphan or an unborn branch. 54 55 * Some corner cases have been fixed in string-matching done in "git 56 status". 57 58 * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take 59 more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround 60 for it. 61 62Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code 63clean-ups.