{"thread":{"id":"40576","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.6.2","startedAt":"2015-10-16T22:10:57Z","lastAt":"2015-10-16T22:10:57Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"271841","messageId":"xmqqoafycvm6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com","threadId":"40576","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.6.2","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2015-10-16T22:10:57Z","receivedAt":"2015-10-16T22:10:57Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git v2.6.2 is now available at\nthe usual places.\n\nThe tarballs are found at:\n\n    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\nThe following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.6.2'\ntag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:\n\n  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git\n  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git\n  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git\n  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core\n  url = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nGit v2.6.2 Release Notes\n========================\n\nFixes since v2.6.1\n------------------\n\n * There were some classes of errors that \"git fsck\" diagnosed to its\n   standard error that did not cause it to exit with non-zero status.\n\n * A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug,\n   which was fixed.\n\n * Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git.\n\n * On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable\n   using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem\n   thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree.\n\n * When \"git am\" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying\n   attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed.\n\n * After \"git checkout --detach\", \"git status\" reported a fairly\n   useless \"HEAD detached at HEAD\", instead of saying at which exact\n   commit.\n\n * \"git rebase -i\" had a minor regression recently, which stopped\n   considering a line that begins with an indented '#' in its insn\n   sheet not a comment, which is now fixed.\n\n * Description of the \"log.follow\" configuration variable in \"git log\"\n   documentation is now also copied to \"git config\" documentation.\n\n * Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call\n   inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause\n   glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler\n   tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager().  Reduce\n   these unsafe calls.\n\n * The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are\n   DWIMmed was not clearly documented.\n\n * Customization to change the behaviour with \"make -w\" and \"make -s\"\n   in our Makefile was broken when they were used together.\n\n * The Makefile always runs the library archiver with hardcoded \"crs\"\n   options, which was inconvenient for exotic platforms on which\n   people want to use programs with totally different set of command\n   line options.\n\n * The ssh transport, just like any other transport over the network,\n   did not clear GIT_* environment variables, but it is possible to\n   use SendEnv and AcceptEnv to leak them to the remote invocation of\n   Git, which is not a good idea at all.  Explicitly clear them just\n   like we do for the local transport.\n\n * \"git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0\" was not rejected but did not\n   limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain.\n\n * Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional\n   (which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end\n   of the command line).  Add notice to documentation of each and\n   every one of them.\n\nAlso contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code\nclean-ups.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v2.6.1 are as follows:\n\nAlex Henrie (2):\n      merge: grammofix in please-commit-before-merge message\n      pull: enclose <options> in brackets in the usage string\n\nChristian Couder (2):\n      quote: fix broken sq_quote_buf() related comment\n      quote: move comment before sq_quote_buf()\n\nEric N. Vander Weele (1):\n      log: Update log.follow doc and add to config.txt\n\nJacob Keller (1):\n      notes: correct documentation of DWIMery for notes references\n\nJeff King (3):\n      git_connect: clear GIT_* environment for ssh\n      git_connect: clarify conn->use_shell flag\n      blame: handle --first-parent\n\nJohannes Schindelin (1):\n      setup: fix \"inside work tree\" detection on case-insensitive filesystems\n\nJohn Keeping (2):\n      Makefile: fix MAKEFLAGS tests with multiple flags\n      Documentation: fix section header mark-up\n\nJunio C Hamano (3):\n      Makefile: allow $(ARFLAGS) specified from the command line\n      fsck: exit with non-zero when problems are found\n      Git 2.6.2\n\nMatthieu Moy (7):\n      Documentation: use 'keyid' consistently, not 'key-id'\n      Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O\n      Documentation: explain optional arguments better\n      t3203: test 'detached at' after checkout --detach\n      status: don't say 'HEAD detached at HEAD'\n      rebase-i: explicitly accept tab as separator in commands\n      rebase-i: loosen over-eager check_bad_cmd check\n\nMichael J Gruber (1):\n      t2026: rename worktree prune test\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):\n      ls-remote.txt: delete unsupported option\n\nRenee Margaret McConahy (1):\n      am: configure gpg at startup\n\nStephan Beyer (2):\n      t5561: get rid of racy appending to logfile\n      t/perf: make runner work even if Git is not installed\n\nTakashi Iwai (1):\n      pager: don't use unsafe functions in signal handlers\n\nTobias Klauser (2):\n      connect: fix typo in result string of prot_name()\n      Documentation/interpret-trailers: Grammar fix\n"}]}