| Git v2.4.1 Release Notes | |
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| Fixes since v2.4 | |
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| * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory | |
| showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the | |
| directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, | |
| when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" | |
| and compare the file with the file with the same name in the | |
| directory, instead of refusing to run. | |
| * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" | |
| that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email | |
| entries in it. | |
| * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost | |
| the daylight-saving-time offset. | |
| * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no | |
| object type that is "bl". | |
| * Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files | |
| that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the | |
| beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration | |
| files already. | |
| * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a | |
| slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code | |
| becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning. | |
| * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the | |
| ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but | |
| the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the | |
| root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to | |
| do, but still valid). | |
| Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code | |
| clean-ups. |