| Git v2.8.2 Release Notes | |
| ======================== | |
| Fixes since v2.8.1 | |
| ------------------ | |
| * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build | |
| the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate | |
| array of strings. | |
| * Bunch of tests on "git clone" has been renumbered for better | |
| organization. | |
| * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide | |
| configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment. | |
| * "index-pack --keep=<msg>" was broken since v2.1.0 timeframe. | |
| * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git | |
| config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status | |
| when there was no matching configuration. | |
| * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git | |
| rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's | |
| option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. | |
| * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't | |
| work across remote-curl transport. | |
| * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff | |
| code. | |
| * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain | |
| corner cases in its error codepath. | |
| * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a | |
| repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git | |
| subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch | |
| references when we are not in a repository. | |
| * "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides | |
| deleted. | |
| * "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format | |
| when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them. | |
| * When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding | |
| "git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log | |
| messages from all the squashed commits. | |
| * "git merge FETCH_HEAD" dereferenced NULL pointer when merging | |
| nothing into an unborn history (which is arguably unusual usage, | |
| which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it). | |
| * Build updates for MSVC. | |
| * "git diff -M" used to work better when two originally identical | |
| files A and B got renamed to X/A and X/B by pairing A to X/A and B | |
| to X/B, but this was broken in the 2.0 timeframe. | |
| * "git send-pack --all <there>" was broken when its command line | |
| option parsing was written in the 2.6 timeframe. | |
| * When running "git blame $path" with unnormalized data in the index | |
| for the path, the data in the working tree was blamed, even though | |
| "git add" would not have changed what is already in the index, due | |
| to "safe crlf" that disables the line-end conversion. It has been | |
| corrected. | |
| Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |