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1 Git v2.11.1 Release Notes
2 =========================
4 Fixes since v2.11
5 -----------------
7 * The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS.
9 * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0
11 * Update the isatty() emulation for Windows by updating the previous
12 hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC runtime.
14 * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like
15 "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!".
17 * An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used
18 to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a
19 submodule directory there, which has been fixed..
21 * The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the
22 superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed
23 out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small
24 project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable
25 number of refs.
27 * "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't
28 "--dry-run" in the submodules.
30 * The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order,
31 and was unstable.
33 * mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply
34 to built-in tools, but now it does.
36 * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob.
38 * Fix a corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in
39 during 2.10 development cycle.
41 * Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails
42 to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message
43 only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to
44 be reported with something sensible.
46 * When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later,
47 it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash"
48 misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very
49 similar content is added.
51 * "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option.
53 * "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from
54 a subdirectory, which has been fixed.
56 * "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index
57 ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not
58 change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody
59 needed it so far.
61 * A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but
62 path normalization logic was unaware of it.
64 * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since
65 we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without
66 invoking "git rebase", but it didn't.
68 * The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git
69 mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff.
71 * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back
72 to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when
73 the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user
74 did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt
75 the operation.
77 * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation.
79 * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage
80 objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot
81 have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn
82 made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This
83 has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when
84 appending such a path to the colon-separated list.
86 * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:"
87 before the custom message programs give, when they want to die
88 with a message about wrong command line options followed by the
89 standard usage string.
91 * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository,
92 but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that
93 corresponds to a packfile does not.
95 * Fix for NDEBUG builds.
97 * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
98 specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
99 push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.
101 * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link.
103 * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running
104 "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This
105 has been fixed.
107 * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist
108 that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed
109 by many empty commits. This has been fixed.
111 * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been
112 fixed.
114 * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http
115 rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that
116 will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
117 and abort the transfer.
120 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.