| Git v2.4.3 Release Notes | |
| ======================== | |
| Fixes since v2.4.3 | |
| ------------------ | |
| * Error messages from "git branch" called remote-tracking branches as | |
| "remote branches". | |
| * "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a | |
| cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead. | |
| * "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but | |
| "git pull --log=20" did not. | |
| * The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff | |
| configuration, but it didn't. | |
| * The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred | |
| pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory | |
| enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation | |
| size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough. | |
| * Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more | |
| consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative | |
| formatter) happier. | |
| * "git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the | |
| command line. | |
| * Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago | |
| unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with | |
| resource exhaustion. | |
| * The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is | |
| removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice | |
| versa) very well. | |
| * The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit | |
| at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not | |
| work with --decorate=full. | |
| * There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect | |
| failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the | |
| test was written; turn it into a proper test. | |
| * core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed | |
| to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but | |
| the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it. | |
| * The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb | |
| differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and | |
| its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink" | |
| variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared | |
| anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh"). | |
| * "git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a | |
| bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start. | |
| * "git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by | |
| killing the editor. | |
| * Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone" | |
| with native transports. | |
| * Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git() | |
| call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the | |
| state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history | |
| with LF line ending to make their project portable across | |
| platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with | |
| CRLF for their platform. | |
| * Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support. | |
| Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code | |
| clean-ups. |