1 Git v2.7.3 Release Notes
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7 * Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
8 contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
9 filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
10 subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
11 harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed
12 to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.
14 * Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
15 the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
16 setting a configuration variable failed.
18 * Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
19 process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
22 * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
23 rev, i.e. the object named by the pathname with wildcard
24 characters in a tree object.
26 * "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature
27 misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
29 * The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
30 broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.
32 * "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
33 its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
34 what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
35 been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
36 the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
39 * The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
40 tricky, has been documented a bit better.
42 * The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
43 now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
46 * Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
47 arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the
48 tests to sidestep the problem.
50 * A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
51 modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
52 (e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.
54 * "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository
55 configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository,
56 but didn't say the reason correctly.
58 * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack
59 idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the
62 Also includes documentation and test updates.