| Git 2.38.2 Release Notes | |
| ======================== | |
| This is to backport various fixes accumulated during the development | |
| towards Git 2.39, the next feature release. | |
| Fixes since v2.38.1 | |
| ------------------- | |
| * Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid | |
| in C99. | |
| * The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory | |
| accesses, which has been corrected. | |
| * "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch | |
| refspec, which has been corrected. | |
| * "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin" | |
| options used together without a good reason. | |
| * Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation. | |
| * "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used | |
| from the memory, which has been fixed. | |
| * "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit | |
| itself, which has been corrected. | |
| * In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a | |
| merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and | |
| led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected. | |
| * Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can | |
| find expected error messages in the log. | |
| * Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a | |
| substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access. | |
| * The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read | |
| from "ssh-keygen". | |
| * "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure, | |
| which has been corrected. | |
| * Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have | |
| been clarified. | |
| * "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable | |
| cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected. | |
| * The code to clean temporary object directories (used for | |
| quarantine) tried to remove them inside its signal handler, which | |
| was a no-no. | |
| * "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly | |
| said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected. | |
| * GitHub CI settings have been adjusted to recent reality, merging | |
| and cherry-picking necessary topics that have been prepared for Git | |
| 2.39. | |
| * `git rebase --update-refs` would delete references when all `update-ref` | |
| commands in the sequencer were removed, which has been corrected. | |
| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |