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1 Git 2.43.1 Release Notes
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4 There is nothing exciting to see here. Relative to Git 2.43, this
5 release contains the fixes that have already been merged to the
6 'master' branch of the development towards the next major release.
8 Fixes since Git 2.43.0
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11 * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
12 suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
14 * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
15 (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
16 requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
17 simplifying our implementation.
19 * Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records
20 information about commits that are lost from the object store,
21 which has negative performance implications. The default has been
22 flipped to disable this pessimization.
24 * Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
25 archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.
27 * trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed
28 authentication material, which has been corrected.
30 * The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new
31 paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice
32 an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when
33 rename detection was enabled.
35 * The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too
36 loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the
37 extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been
38 tightened up.
40 * "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed
41 to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was
42 fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout".
44 * "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs
45 even when BISECT_START file is gone.
47 * Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables
48 specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected.
50 * Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git
51 show-ref".
53 * The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid
54 recursion.
56 * "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message,
57 which has been corrected.
59 * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better
60 with the reftable backend.
62 * "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and
63 being rebased when both are in effect at the same time.
64 cf. <xmqqil76kyov.fsf@gitster.g>
66 * "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command
67 line parameters, which has been corrected.
69 * "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the
70 patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been
71 corrected.
73 * Unlike other environment variables that took the usual
74 true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1,
75 which has been corrected.
77 * Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch
78 --recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core
79 commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary
80 data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected.
82 Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.