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1 Git v2.5.1 Release Notes

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4 Fixes since v2.5

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6

7 * Running an aliased command from a subdirectory when the .git thing

8 in the working tree is a gitfile pointing elsewhere did not work.

9

10 * Often a fast-import stream builds a new commit on top of the

11 previous commit it built, and it often unconditionally emits a

12 "from" command to specify the first parent, which can be omitted in

13 such a case. This caused fast-import to forget the tree of the

14 previous commit and then re-read it from scratch, which was

15 inefficient. Optimize for this common case.

16

17 * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mode parsed the option specification

18 and the argument hint in a strange way to allow '=' and other

19 special characters in the option name while forbidding them from

20 the argument hint. This made it impossible to define an option

21 like "--pair <key>=<value>" with "pair=key=value" specification,

22 which instead would have defined a "--pair=key <value>" option.

23

24 * A "rebase" replays changes of the local branch on top of something

25 else, as such they are placed in stage #3 and referred to as

26 "theirs", while the changes in the new base, typically a foreign

27 work, are placed in stage #2 and referred to as "ours". Clarify

28 the "checkout --ours/--theirs".

29

30 * An experimental "untracked cache" feature used uname(2) in a

31 slightly unportable way.

32

33 * "sparse checkout" misbehaved for a path that is excluded from the

34 checkout when switching between branches that differ at the path.

35

36 * The low-level "git send-pack" did not honor 'user.signingkey'

37 configuration variable when sending a signed-push.

38

39 * An attempt to delete a ref by pushing into a repository whose HEAD

40 symbolic reference points at an unborn branch that cannot be

41 created due to ref D/F conflict (e.g. refs/heads/a/b exists, HEAD

42 points at refs/heads/a) failed.

43

44 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) depended on "git log" output to be

45 stable, which was a no-no. Apply a workaround to force a

46 particular date format.

47

48 * "git clone $URL" in recent releases of Git contains a regression in

49 the code that invents a new repository name incorrectly based on

50 the $URL. This has been corrected.

51 (merge db2e220 jk/guess-repo-name-regression-fix later to maint).

52

53 * Running tests with the "-x" option to make them verbose had some

54 unpleasant interactions with other features of the test suite.

55 (merge 9b5fe78 jk/test-with-x later to maint).

56

57 * "git pull" in recent releases of Git has a regression in the code

58 that allows custom path to the --upload-pack=<program>. This has

59 been corrected.

60

61 * pipe() emulation used in Git for Windows looked at a wrong variable

62 when checking for an error from an _open_osfhandle() call.

63

64 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code

65 clean-ups.