1 Git v2.4.3 Release Notes
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7 * Error messages from "git branch" called remote-tracking branches as
10 * "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a
11 cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead.
13 * "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but
14 "git pull --log=20" did not.
16 * The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
17 configuration, but it didn't.
19 * The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred
20 pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory
21 enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation
22 size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough.
24 * Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more
25 consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative
28 * "git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the
31 * Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago
32 unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with
35 * The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is
36 removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice
39 * The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit
40 at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not
41 work with --decorate=full.
43 * There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect
44 failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the
45 test was written; turn it into a proper test.
47 * core.excludesfile (defaulting to $XDG_HOME/git/ignore) is supposed
48 to be overridden by repository-specific .git/info/exclude file, but
49 the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
51 * The connection initiation code for "ssh" transport tried to absorb
52 differences between the stock "ssh" and Putty-supplied "plink" and
53 its derivatives, but the logic to tell that we are using "plink"
54 variants were too loose and falsely triggered when "plink" appeared
55 anywhere in the path (e.g. "/home/me/bin/uplink/ssh").
57 * "git rebase -i" moved the "current" command from "todo" to "done" a
58 bit too prematurely, losing a step when a "pick" did not even start.
60 * "git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by
63 * Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone"
64 with native transports.
66 * Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git()
67 call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the
68 state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history
69 with LF line ending to make their project portabile across
70 platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with
71 CRLF for their platform.
73 * Code clean-up for xdg configuration path support.
75 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code