| Git 2.43.1 Release Notes | |
| ======================== | |
| There is nothing exciting to see here. Relative to Git 2.43, this | |
| release contains the fixes that have already been merged to the | |
| 'master' branch of the development towards the next major release. | |
| Fixes since Git 2.43.0 | |
| ---------------------- | |
| * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test | |
| suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected. | |
| * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our | |
| (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version | |
| requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow | |
| simplifying our implementation. | |
| * Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records | |
| information about commits that are lost from the object store, | |
| which has negative performance implications. The default has been | |
| flipped to disable this pessimization. | |
| * Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or | |
| archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. | |
| * trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed | |
| authentication material, which has been corrected. | |
| * The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new | |
| paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice | |
| an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when | |
| rename detection was enabled. | |
| * The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too | |
| loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the | |
| extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been | |
| tightened up. | |
| * "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed | |
| to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was | |
| fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout". | |
| * "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs | |
| even when BISECT_START file is gone. | |
| * Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables | |
| specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected. | |
| * Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git | |
| show-ref". | |
| * The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid | |
| recursion. | |
| * "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message, | |
| which has been corrected. | |
| * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better | |
| with the reftable backend. | |
| * "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and | |
| being rebased when both are in effect at the same time. | |
| cf. <xmqqil76kyov.fsf@gitster.g> | |
| * "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command | |
| line parameters, which has been corrected. | |
| * "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the | |
| patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been | |
| corrected. | |
| * Unlike other environment variables that took the usual | |
| true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1, | |
| which has been corrected. | |
| * Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch | |
| --recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core | |
| commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary | |
| data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected. | |
| Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. |