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Git v2.11.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.11
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* The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS.
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* The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0
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* Update the isatty() emulation for Windows by updating the previous
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hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC runtime.
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* "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like
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"HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!".
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* An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used
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to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a
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submodule directory there, which has been fixed..
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* The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the
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superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed
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out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small
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project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable
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number of refs.
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* "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't
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"--dry-run" in the submodules.
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* The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order,
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and was unstable.
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* mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply
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to built-in tools, but now it does.
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* "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob.
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* Fix a corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in
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during 2.10 development cycle.
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* Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails
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to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message
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only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to
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be reported with something sensible.
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* When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later,
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it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash"
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misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very
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similar content is added.
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* "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option.
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* "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from
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a subdirectory, which has been fixed.
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* "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index
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ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not
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change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody
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needed it so far.
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* A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but
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path normalization logic was unaware of it.
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* "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since
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we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without
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invoking "git rebase", but it didn't.
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* The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git
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mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff.
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* Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back
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to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when
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the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user
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did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt
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the operation.
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* Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation.
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* A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage
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objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot
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have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn
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made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This
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has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when
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appending such a path to the colon-separated list.
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* The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:"
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before the custom message programs give, when they want to die
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with a message about wrong command line options followed by the
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standard usage string.
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* "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository,
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but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that
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corresponds to a packfile does not.
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* Fix for NDEBUG builds.
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* A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
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specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
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push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.
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* "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link.
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* Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running
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"git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This
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has been fixed.
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* "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist
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that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed
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by many empty commits. This has been fixed.
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* A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been
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fixed.
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* When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http
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rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that
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will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
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and abort the transfer.
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* Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
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the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
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more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
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* Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
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* Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by
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TravisCI.
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* A few git-svn updates.
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* Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across
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three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
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Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
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pack.compression variables the same way.
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* "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
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tree, which has been fixed.
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* Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
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lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
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* Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
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* It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack
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everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning
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when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,
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leading to disabling further "gc".
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* "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and
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failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff
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driver configuration.
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* "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>
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pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.
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* "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect
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count when squashing more than 10 commits.
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* "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has
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been corrected to error out with a message.
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* Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as
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a PRE regexp engine.
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* Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
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took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
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structure. This has been fixed.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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