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Git v2.5.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.5
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 * Running an aliased command from a subdirectory when the .git thing
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   in the working tree is a gitfile pointing elsewhere did not work.
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 * Often a fast-import stream builds a new commit on top of the
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   previous commit it built, and it often unconditionally emits a
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   "from" command to specify the first parent, which can be omitted in
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   such a case.  This caused fast-import to forget the tree of the
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   previous commit and then re-read it from scratch, which was
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   inefficient.  Optimize for this common case.
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 * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mode parsed the option specification
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   and the argument hint in a strange way to allow '=' and other
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   special characters in the option name while forbidding them from
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   the argument hint.  This made it impossible to define an option
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   like "--pair <key>=<value>" with "pair=key=value" specification,
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   which instead would have defined a "--pair=key <value>" option.
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 * A "rebase" replays changes of the local branch on top of something
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   else, as such they are placed in stage #3 and referred to as
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   "theirs", while the changes in the new base, typically a foreign
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   work, are placed in stage #2 and referred to as "ours".  Clarify
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   the "checkout --ours/--theirs".
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 * An experimental "untracked cache" feature used uname(2) in a
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   slightly unportable way.
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 * "sparse checkout" misbehaved for a path that is excluded from the
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   checkout when switching between branches that differ at the path.
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 * The low-level "git send-pack" did not honor 'user.signingkey'
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   configuration variable when sending a signed-push.
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 * An attempt to delete a ref by pushing into a repository whose HEAD
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   symbolic reference points at an unborn branch that cannot be
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   created due to ref D/F conflict (e.g. refs/heads/a/b exists, HEAD
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   points at refs/heads/a) failed.
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 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) depended on "git log" output to be
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   stable, which was a no-no.  Apply a workaround to force a
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   particular date format.
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 * "git clone $URL" in recent releases of Git contains a regression in
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   the code that invents a new repository name incorrectly based on
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   the $URL.  This has been corrected.
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   (merge db2e220 jk/guess-repo-name-regression-fix later to maint).
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 * Running tests with the "-x" option to make them verbose had some
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   unpleasant interactions with other features of the test suite.
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   (merge 9b5fe78 jk/test-with-x later to maint).
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 * "git pull" in recent releases of Git has a regression in the code
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   that allows custom path to the --upload-pack=<program>.  This has
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   been corrected.
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 * pipe() emulation used in Git for Windows looked at a wrong variable
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   when checking for an error from an _open_osfhandle() call.
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Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
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clean-ups.
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