| Git v2.12.3 Release Notes | |
| ========================= | |
| Fixes since v2.12.2 | |
| ------------------- | |
| * The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up. | |
| * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from | |
| real_path() to a strbuf has been added. | |
| * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so | |
| old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not | |
| so ancient. | |
| * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the | |
| older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become | |
| possible. | |
| * Teach the "debug" helper used in the test framework that allows a | |
| command to run under "gdb" to make the session interactive. | |
| * "git repack --depth=<n>" for a long time busted the specified depth | |
| when reusing delta from existing packs. This has been corrected. | |
| * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently | |
| error out, but didn't. | |
| * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where | |
| they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). | |
| * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the | |
| code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in | |
| disambiguating. | |
| * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other | |
| side does not allow such an request, failed without much | |
| explanation. | |
| * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that | |
| becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty. | |
| * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http | |
| transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to | |
| enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to | |
| give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates. | |
| * NO_PTHREADS build has been broken for some time; now fixed. | |
| * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also | |
| v2.10.2). | |
| * A few unterminated here documents in tests were fixed, which in | |
| turn revealed incorrect expectations the tests make. These tests | |
| have been updated. | |
| * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name | |
| begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it | |
| confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with | |
| an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive | |
| pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access | |
| (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). | |
| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |