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1 Git 2.22.1 Release Notes
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4 Fixes since v2.22
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7 * A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>"
8 ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in,
9 but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been
10 corrected.
12 * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to
13 the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected.
15 * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote
16 backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting
17 closed, which has been fixed.
19 * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
20 output, which has been corrected.
22 * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
23 value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
24 use, which has been corrected.
26 * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
27 if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
29 * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
30 the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
31 in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
33 * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
34 index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
35 by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
36 when both options are given.
38 * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
39 the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
40 has been corrected.
42 * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
44 * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
45 "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
46 broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
48 * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
49 from in the local repository and in the published repository are
50 different.
52 * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
53 recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
54 hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
55 to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
57 * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are
58 necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been
59 corrected.
61 * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a
62 lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API
63 correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element
64 of the array in use. This has been corrected.
66 * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
67 indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
68 matches directories") has been revamped.
70 * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end
71 of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence.
73 * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been
74 updated.
76 * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely,
77 the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when
78 it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without
79 having to consult the other end, which has been corrected.
81 * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now
82 it gives a warning.
84 * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read
85 past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed.
87 * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message
88 "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was
89 confusing. This has been corrected.
91 * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
92 description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
93 forms to make them more recognisable.
95 * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be
96 effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not
97 affect anything when running an non-interactive one, which was not
98 the case. This has been corrected.
100 * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed
101 to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the
102 "--recursive" option was in use.
104 * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor
105 support to clear cruft in the progress output.
107 * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output
108 without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been
109 fixed.
111 * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has
112 been made more robust and also easier to follow.
114 * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line
115 completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires
116 a repository outside one), which has been corrected.
118 * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding
119 "git rebase -r", which has been corrected.
121 * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting
122 rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected.
124 * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment
125 character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been
126 corrected.
128 * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer overlaps during binary search.
130 * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse,
131 which did not work well.
133 * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
134 may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
135 closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
136 an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
137 new instance to replace it.
139 * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via
140 "import" based transports.
142 * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
143 coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
144 a blanket ban against them.
147 Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.