has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
future release.
+ * The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the
+ socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has
+ been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket".
+
Updates since v2.12
-------------------
* Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not
a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed.
+ * Recently we started passing the "--push-options" through the
+ external remote helper interface; now the "smart HTTP" remote
+ helper understands what to do with the passed information.
+
+ * "git describe --dirty" dies when it cannot be determined if the
+ state in the working tree matches that of HEAD (e.g. broken
+ repository or broken submodule). The command learned a new option
+ "git describe --broken" to give "$name-broken" (where $name is the
+ description of HEAD) in such a case.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
facility.
+ * The "debug" helper used in the test framework learned to run
+ a command under "gdb" interactively.
+ (merge 59210dd56c sg/test-with-stdin later to maint).
+
+ * The "detect attempt to create collisions" variant of SHA-1
+ implementation by Marc Stevens (CWI) and Dan Shumow (Microsoft)
+ has been integrated and made the default.
+
+ * The test framework learned to detect unterminated here documents.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v2.12
-----------------
-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.12 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
* The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev>
[[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs
have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev).
- (merge 131f3c96d2 jk/grep-no-index-fix later to maint).
* "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent
updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
.git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
repository. Stop doing so.
- (merge 4b0c3c7735 jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir later to maint).
* "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
* The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
been fixed.
- (merge 1274a155af jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2 later to maint).
* user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently
error out, but didn't.
* "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
- (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint).
* "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
response, which has been fixed.
* "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
+ * "git revert -m 0 $merge_commit" complained that reverting a merge
+ needs to say relative to which parent the reversion needs to
+ happen, as if "-m 0" weren't given. The correct diagnosis is that
+ "-m 0" does not refer to the first parent ("-m 1" does). This has
+ been fixed.
+
* Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the
variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing
misconfiguration.
- (merge 5ea304896e sb/submodule-config-parse-ignore-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Fix for NO_PTHREADS build.
+ (merge 7b91929ba0 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint).
+
+ * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also
+ v2.10.2) to "git log --pickaxe-regex -S".
+ (merge f53c5de29c js/regexec-buf later to maint).
+
+ * A few unterminated here documents in tests were fixed, which in
+ turn revealed incorrect expectations the tests make. These tests
+ have been updated.
+ (merge b42ca35e5c st/verify-tag later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint).
(merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint).
(merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint).
(merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 2c7ee986c7 ab/doc-no-option-notation-fix later to maint).
- (merge e4e016f65d ab/push-default-doc-fix later to maint).
- (merge baced9e4e5 nd/commit-hook-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge e94eac49e6 rs/http-push-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge ba6746c08f rs/path-name-safety-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge d41626ff9e rs/shortlog-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge dce96c41f9 rs/update-hook-optim later to maint).
+ (merge 37e61153e2 jk/quote-env-path-list-component later to maint).
+ (merge a4dded0189 sb/submodule-update-initial-runs-custom-script later to maint).
+ (merge 70471ed9bb sb/t3600-rephrase later to maint).
+ (merge e7e183d6ee km/config-grammofix later to maint).