1 Git v2.4.7 Release Notes
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7 * A minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era was fixed; it
8 complained about a body-less tag object when it lacked a
9 separator empty line after its header to separate it with a
12 * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method
13 available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to
14 talk to one via configuration variables. We now ask libCURL to
15 always use the most secure authentication method, because the user
16 can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable
17 without using configuration variables.
19 * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse
20 yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took
21 control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but
22 that isn't what is happening. To that new shell, we leaked
23 GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local
24 communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was
25 spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many
26 "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints
27 its output in color by default.
29 Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the
30 fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager.
32 * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation.
34 * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the
35 underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still
38 * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count".
40 * An ancient test framework enhancement to allow color was not
41 entirely correct; this makes it work even when tput needs to read
42 from the ~/.terminfo under the user's real HOME directory.
44 * Fix a small bug in our use of umask() return value.
46 * "git rebase" did not exit with failure when format-patch it invoked
47 failed for whatever reason.
49 * Disable "have we lost a race with competing repack?" check while
50 receiving a huge object transfer that runs index-pack.
52 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code