1 Git v2.12.1 Release Notes
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7 * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
8 just a single authentication method. This also improves the
9 behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth
10 against a server that does not authenticate without a username
11 (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth
14 * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1
15 routines, so let them.
17 * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
20 * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
21 redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
22 and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
24 * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
25 selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
26 directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
27 "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
30 * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
31 operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
32 seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
34 * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
35 are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
38 * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
39 structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
41 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.