The latest maintenance release Git v2.8.2 is now available at
the usual places.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.8.2'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
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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.
* 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.
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Changes since v2.8.1 are as follows:
Alexander Kuleshov (1):
submodule-config: use hashmap_iter_first()
Christian Couder (1):
Documentation: talk about pager in api-trace.txt
David Aguilar (2):
mergetool: support delete/delete conflicts
mergetool: honor tempfile configuration when resolving delete conflicts
Elia Pinto (1):
api-trace.txt: fix typo
Gabriel Souza Franco (2):
fetch-pack: fix object_id of exact sha1
fetch-pack: update the documentation for "<refs>..." arguments
Jeff King (12):
t1515: add tests for rev-parse out-of-repo helpers
rev-parse: let some options run outside repository
strbuf_getwholeline: NUL-terminate getdelim buffer on error
setup: make startup_info available everywhere
setup: set startup_info->have_repository more reliably
remote: don't resolve HEAD in non-repository
mailmap: do not resolve blobs in a non-repository
grep: turn off gitlink detection for --no-index
use setup_git_directory() in test-* programs
send-email: ignore trailing whitespace in mailrc alias file
credential-cache--daemon: clarify "exit" action semantics
t/lib-httpd: pass through GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM env
Johannes Sixt (1):
Windows: shorten code by re-using convert_slashes()
John Keeping (3):
config: fail if --get-urlmatch finds no value
Documentation/git-config: use bulleted list for exit codes
Documentation/git-config: fix --get-all description
Junio C Hamano (7):
index-pack: correct --keep[=<msg>]
index-pack: add a helper function to derive .idx/.keep filename
merge: fix NULL pointer dereference when merging nothing into void
Makefile: fix misdirected redirections
Start preparing for 2.8.2
Prepare for 2.8.2
Git 2.8.2
Matthieu Moy (2):
lockfile: mark strings for translation
lockfile: improve error message when lockfile exists
Michael Procter (1):
upload-pack: use argv_array for pack_objects
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (2):
git-apply.txt: remove a space
git-apply.txt: mention the behavior inside a subdir
Ori Avtalion (1):
Documentation: git diff --check detects conflict markers
Pranit Bauva (2):
t/t7502 : drop duplicate test
api-parse-options.txt: document OPT_CMDMODE()
Ramsay Jones (2):
xdiff/xprepare: use the XDF_DIFF_ALG() macro to access flag bits
xdiff/xprepare: fix a memory leak
SZEDER Gábor (1):
diffcore: fix iteration order of identical files during rename detection
Saurav Sachidanand (1):
dir: store EXC_FLAG_* values in unsigned integers
Stanislav Kolotinskiy (1):
git-send-pack: fix --all option when used with directory
Stefan Beller (1):
clone tests: rename t57* => t56*
Sven Strickroth (3):
commit: do not lose SQUASH_MSG contents
MSVC: vsnprintf in Visual Studio 2015 doesn't need SNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR any more
MSVC: use shipped headers instead of fallback definitions
Torsten Bögershausen (1):
correct blame for files commited with CRLF
Vasco Almeida (4):
l10n: fr: fix transcation of "dir"
l10n: fr: fix wrongly translated option name
l10n: fr: change "id de clé" to match "id-clé"
l10n: fr: don't translate "merge" as a parameter
Hi all,
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> The latest maintenance release Git v2.8.2 is now available at
> the usual places.
I considered releasing Git for Windows v2.8.2 today, too. However, I
decided to delay the release for a couple of days, for a couple of
reasons:
- I expect an update of the Git Credential Manager in the next few days.
- OpenSSL is slated to receive critical updates on Tuesday and I plan to
incorporate these into Git for Windows' next version, too.
I will also use version 2.8.2 as an excuse to ship with support for the
extra HTTP headers configured via `http.extraheader`, which I hoped to
get into Git v2.8.2, too, because I'd like the feature to be available on
Linux and MacOSX, too.
In short: the tentative release date of Git for Windows v2.8.2 is
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016.
Stay tuned,
Johannes