{"thread":{"id":"47865","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.2","startedAt":"2018-02-16T17:55:49Z","lastAt":"2018-02-16T17:55:49Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"339561","messageId":"xmqqinaw7rat.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com","threadId":"47865","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.2","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2018-02-16T17:55:22Z","receivedAt":"2018-02-16T17:55:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release Git v2.16.2 is now available at\nthe usual places, with small fixes that are already in the \n'master' front.\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 'v2.16.2'\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 = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nGit v2.16.2 Release Notes\n=========================\n\nFixes since v2.16.1\n-------------------\n\n * An old regression in \"git describe --all $annotated_tag^0\" has been\n   fixed.\n\n * \"git svn dcommit\" did not take into account the fact that a\n   svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers\n   to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when\n   svn.pushmergeinfo option is set.\n\n * \"git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs\" learned to use our/their version when\n   resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link.\n\n * \"git clone $there $here\" is allowed even when here directory exists\n   as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly\n   removed it upon a failure of the operation.\n\n * \"git stash -- <pathspec>\" incorrectly blew away untracked files in\n   the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected.\n\n * \"git add -p\" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as\n   they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes\n   anyway.\n\n\nAlso contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n\nChanges since v2.16.1 are as follows:\n\nAndreas G. Schacker (1):\n      doc/read-tree: remove obsolete remark\n\nDaniel Knittl-Frank (1):\n      describe: prepend \"tags/\" when describing tags with embedded name\n\nJason Merrill (1):\n      git-svn: fix svn.pushmergeinfo handling of svn+ssh usernames.\n\nJeff King (4):\n      t5600: fix outdated comment about unborn HEAD\n      t5600: modernize style\n      clone: factor out dir_exists() helper\n      clone: do not clean up directories we didn't create\n\nJunio C Hamano (2):\n      merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to symbolic link merge\n      Git 2.16.2\n\nNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):\n      add--interactive: ignore submodule changes except HEAD\n\nRené Scharfe (9):\n      commit: avoid allocation in clear_commit_marks_many()\n      commit: use clear_commit_marks_many() in remove_redundant()\n      ref-filter: use clear_commit_marks_many() in do_merge_filter()\n      object: add clear_commit_marks_all()\n      bisect: avoid using the rev_info flag leak_pending\n      bundle: avoid using the rev_info flag leak_pending\n      checkout: avoid using the rev_info flag leak_pending\n      revision: remove the unused flag leak_pending\n      commit: remove unused function clear_commit_marks_for_object_array()\n\nThomas Gummerer (1):\n      stash: don't delete untracked files that match pathspec\n\nÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (2):\n      perf: amend the grep tests to test grep.threads\n      cat-file doc: document that -e will return some output\n\n"}]}