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| 1 | +Git 2.42.1 Release Notes |
| 2 | +======================== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +There is nothing exciting to see here. Relative to Git 2.42, this |
| 5 | +release contains the fixes that have already been merged to the |
| 6 | +'master' branch of the development towards Git 2.43 that has been |
| 7 | +tagged as Git 2.43.0-rc0. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +Fixes since Git 2.42.0 |
| 10 | +---------------------- |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | + * Tests that are known to pass with LSan are now marked as such. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | + * Flaky "git p4" tests, as well as "git svn" tests, are now skipped |
| 15 | + in the (rather expensive) sanitizer CI job. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | + * Tests with LSan from time to time seem to emit harmless message |
| 18 | + that makes our tests unnecessarily flaky; we work it around by |
| 19 | + filtering the uninteresting output. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | + * GitHub CI workflow has learned to trigger Coverity check. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + * Overly long label names used in the sequencer machinery are now |
| 24 | + chopped to fit under filesystem limitation. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | + * Scalar updates. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | + * Tweak GitHub Actions CI so that pushing the same commit to multiple |
| 29 | + branch tips at the same time will not waste building and testing |
| 30 | + the same thing twice. |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + * The commit-graph verification code that detects mixture of zero and |
| 33 | + non-zero generation numbers has been updated. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + * "git diff -w --exit-code" with various options did not work |
| 36 | + correctly, which is being addressed. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + * transfer.unpackLimit ought to be used as a fallback, but overrode |
| 39 | + fetch.unpackLimit and receive.unpackLimit instead. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | + * The use of API between two calls to require_clean_work_tree() from |
| 42 | + the sequencer code has been cleaned up for consistency. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + * "git diff --no-such-option" and other corner cases around the exit |
| 45 | + status of the "diff" command has been corrected. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + * "git for-each-ref --sort='contents:size'" sorts the refs according |
| 48 | + to size numerically, giving a ref that points at a blob twelve-byte |
| 49 | + (12) long before showing a blob hundred-byte (100) long. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | + * Various fixes to the behavior of "rebase -i" when the command got |
| 52 | + interrupted by conflicting changes. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | + * References from description of the `--patch` option in various |
| 55 | + manual pages have been simplified and improved. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | + * "git grep -e A --no-or -e B" is accepted, even though the negation |
| 58 | + of "or" did not mean anything, which has been tightened. |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | + * The completion script (in contrib/) has been taught to treat the |
| 61 | + "-t" option to "git checkout" and "git switch" just like the |
| 62 | + "--track" option, to complete remote-tracking branches. |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | + * "git diff --no-index -R <(one) <(two)" did not work correctly, |
| 65 | + which has been corrected. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | + * Update "git maintenance" timers' implementation based on systemd |
| 68 | + timers to work with WSL. |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | + * "git diff --cached" codepath did not fill the necessary stat |
| 71 | + information for a file when fsmonitor knows it is clean and ended |
| 72 | + up behaving as if it is not clean, which has been corrected. |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | + * Clarify how "alias.foo = : git cmd ; aliased-command-string" should |
| 75 | + be spelled with necessary whitespaces around punctuation marks to |
| 76 | + work. |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | + * HTTP Header redaction code has been adjusted for a newer version of |
| 79 | + cURL library that shows its traces differently from earlier |
| 80 | + versions. |
| 81 | + |
| 82 | + * An error message given by "git send-email" when given a malformed |
| 83 | + address did not give correct information, which has been corrected. |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | + * UBSan options were not propagated through the test framework to git |
| 86 | + run via the httpd, unlike ASan options, which has been corrected. |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. |
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