1 Git v2.19.2 Release Notes
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7 * "git interpret-trailers" and its underlying machinery had a buggy
8 code that attempted to ignore patch text after commit log message,
9 which triggered in various codepaths that will always get the log
10 message alone and never get such an input.
12 * "git rebase -i" did not clear the state files correctly when a run
13 of "squash/fixup" is aborted and then the user manually amended the
14 commit instead, which has been corrected.
16 * When fsmonitor is in use, after operation on submodules updates
17 .gitmodules, we lost track of the fact that we did so and relied on
20 * Fix for a long-standing bug that leaves the index file corrupt when
21 it shrinks during a partial commit.
23 * Further fix for O_APPEND emulation on Windows
25 * A corner case bugfix in "git rerere" code.
27 * "git add ':(attr:foo)'" is not supported and is supposed to be
28 rejected while the command line arguments are parsed, but we fail
29 to reject such a command line upfront.
31 * "git rebase" etc. in Git 2.19 fails to abort when given an empty
32 commit log message as result of editing, which has been corrected.
34 * The code to backfill objects in lazily cloned repository did not
35 work correctly, which has been corrected.
37 * Update error messages given by "git remote" and make them consistent.
39 * "git update-ref" learned to make both "--no-deref" and "--stdin"
40 work at the same time.
42 * Recently added "range-diff" had a corner-case bug to cause it
43 segfault, which has been corrected.
45 * The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
46 with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
47 nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
48 based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
49 incompatible features are in use in the repository.
51 * The mailmap file update.
53 * The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
54 was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
55 used for the first run, which has been corrected.
57 * A corner-case bugfix.
59 * A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects
60 will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating
61 repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been
62 optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob
63 objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that
66 * The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
67 remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
69 * "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
70 number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
71 parent commits, which has been corrected.
73 * The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
74 bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
77 * A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
78 and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
80 * Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
81 Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
82 were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
84 * The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
85 when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
86 as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
89 * "git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
90 shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
93 * Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
94 small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
95 machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
96 and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
97 didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
99 * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
100 file is getting prepared for the transition.
102 * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
103 '--verbose-log' option.
105 * A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
106 loop while processing truncated loose objects.
108 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.