{"thread":{"id":"41350","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.1","startedAt":"2016-02-06T00:08:05Z","lastAt":"2016-02-06T00:08:05Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"277621","messageId":"xmqqd1sabt0a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com","threadId":"41350","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.1","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2016-02-06T00:08:05Z","receivedAt":"2016-02-06T00:08:05Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git v2.7.1 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 'v2.7.1'\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 v2.7.1 Release Notes\n========================\n\nFixes since v2.7\n----------------\n\n * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by\n   exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree,\n   interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without\n   setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.\n\n * The \"exclude_list\" structure has the usual \"alloc, nr\" pair of\n   fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot\n   to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed\n   array.\n\n * \"git send-email\" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias\n   files saved by \"mutt\", which has been corrected.\n\n * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler\n   and have been fixed.\n\n * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between\n   the '--signoff' option and DCO.\n\n * \"git reflog\" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be\n   at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault.\n\n * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file\n   listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change\n   that is responsible for the regression has been reverted.\n\n * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR\n   (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is\n   done.  This however did not work well if the repository is set to\n   be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous\n   user is tighter.  They have been made to work better by calling\n   unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM.\n\n * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server\n   log.\n\n * \"git rebase\", unlike all other callers of \"gc --auto\", did not\n   ignore the exit code from \"gc --auto\".\n\n * Many codepaths that run \"gc --auto\" before exiting kept packfiles\n   mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not\n   friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open.  They\n   now close the packs before doing so.\n\n * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a\n   regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been\n   corrected.\n\n * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has\n   been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation.\n\n * \"git tag\" started listing a tag \"foo\" as \"tags/foo\" when a branch\n   named \"foo\" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary\n   disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0.\n\n * The way \"git svn\" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion\n   1.9.0 and later.\n\n * The \"split\" subcommand of \"git subtree\" (in contrib/) incorrectly\n   skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected.\n\n * A few options of \"git diff\" did not work well when the command was\n   run from a subdirectory.\n\n * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it.\n\n * The underlying machinery used by \"ls-files -o\" and other commands\n   have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a\n   directory that is not a submodule.  This removes a ton of wasted\n   CPU cycles.\n\n * Drop a few old \"todo\" items by deciding that the change one of them\n   suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other\n   one suggested to do.\n\n * Documentation for \"git fetch --depth\" has been updated for clarity.\n\n * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options\n   and command specific syntax.\n\nAlso includes a handful of documentation and test updates.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v2.7.0 are as follows:\n\nChangwoo Ryu (1):\n      l10n: ko.po: Add Korean translation\n\nDave Ware (1):\n      contrib/subtree: fix \"subtree split\" skipped-merge bug\n\nDavid A. Wheeler (1):\n      Expand documentation describing --signoff\n\nDennis Kaarsemaker (1):\n      reflog-walk: don't segfault on non-commit sha1's in the reflog\n\nEric Wong (3):\n      git-send-email: do not double-escape quotes from mutt\n      for-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fields\n      git-svn: fix auth parameter handling on SVN 1.9.0+\n\nJeff King (8):\n      avoid shifting signed integers 31 bits\n      bswap: add NO_UNALIGNED_LOADS define\n      rebase: ignore failures from \"gc --auto\"\n      filter-branch: resolve $commit^{tree} in no-index case\n      clean: make is_git_repository a public function\n      resolve_gitlink_ref: ignore non-repository paths\n      t6300: use test_atom for some un-modern tests\n      tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as \"tags/foo\"\n\nJohannes Schindelin (11):\n      commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos\n      Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos\n      Refactor skipping DOS drive prefixes\n      compat/basename: make basename() conform to POSIX\n      compat/basename.c: provide a dirname() compatibility function\n      t0060: verify that basename() and dirname() work as expected\n      fetch: release pack files before garbage-collecting\n      am: release pack files before garbage-collecting\n      merge: release pack files before garbage-collecting\n      receive-pack: release pack files before garbage-collecting\n      t0060: loosen overly strict expectations\n\nJohannes Sixt (1):\n      mingw: avoid linking to the C library's isalpha()\n\nJohn Keeping (1):\n      completion: add missing git-rebase options\n\nJunio C Hamano (2):\n      test-lib: clarify and tighten SANITY\n      Git 2.7.1\n\nLars Vogel (1):\n      git-add doc: do not say working directory when you mean working tree\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (5):\n      Revert \"setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like $GIT_DIR\"\n      dir.c: clean the entire struct in clear_exclude_list()\n      Revert \"dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match\"\n      diff-no-index: do not take a redundant prefix argument\n      diff: make -O and --output work in subdirectory\n\nPaul Wagland (2):\n      completion: complete show-branch \"--date-order\"\n      completion: update completion arguments for stash\n\nSZEDER Gábor (1):\n      t6050-replace: make failing editor test more robust\n\nSebastian Schuberth (3):\n      docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch\n      docs: say \"commits\" in the --depth option wording for git-clone\n      docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos\n\nStephen P. Smith (4):\n      user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list\n      glossary: define the term shallow clone\n      user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones\n      user-manual: add addition gitweb information\n\nThomas Braun (1):\n      completion: complete \"diff --word-diff-regex=\"\n\nØyvind A. Holm (1):\n      gitweb: squelch \"uninitialized value\" warning\n"}]}