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 47Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code 48clean-ups.