| Git v2.8.2 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.8.1 |
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| * 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. |
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| * Bunch of tests on "git clone" has been renumbered for better |
| organization. |
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| * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide |
| configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment. |
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| * "index-pack --keep=<msg>" was broken since v2.1.0 timeframe. |
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| * "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. |
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| * 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. |
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| * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't |
| work across remote-curl transport. |
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| * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff |
| code. |
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| * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain |
| corner cases in its error codepath. |
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| * 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. |
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| * "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides |
| deleted. |
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| * "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format |
| when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them. |
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| * 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. |
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| * "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). |
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| * Build updates for MSVC. |
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| * "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. |
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| * "git send-pack --all <there>" was broken when its command line |
| option parsing was written in the 2.6 timeframe. |
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| * 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. |
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| Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
