read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
hints to the user.
- * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
- the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
- distribution of clients.
-
* "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
"git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
* "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
minute before the code freeze.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a
- duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left
- behind.
- (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint).
-
- * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory
- itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while
- comparison.
- (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint).
-
* "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.