[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.4.5

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2015, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqsi9fy20m.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

The latest maintenance release Git v2.4.5 is now available at the usual places.

The tarballs are found at:

    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.4.5' tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:

  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
  url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
  url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
  url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
  url = https://github.com/gitster/git

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Git v2.4.5 Release Notes ========================

Fixes since v2.4.4 ------------------

 * The setup code used to die when core.bare and core.worktree are set
   inconsistently, even for commands that do not need working tree.

 * There was a dead code that used to handle "git pull --tags" and
   show special-cased error message, which was made irrelevant when
   the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days.

 * "color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
   a more logical synonym.

 * The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
   the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".

 * Recent "git prune" traverses young unreachable objects to safekeep
   old objects in the reachability chain from them, which sometimes
   showed unnecessary error messages that are alarming.

 * "git rebase -i" fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely,
   when it was told to stop sequencing with 'exec' insn).

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.

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Changes since v2.4.4 are as follows:

Jeff King (13):
      diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
      diff.h: rename DIFF_PLAIN color slot to DIFF_CONTEXT
      read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index
      config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config
      config.c: avoid xmmap error messages
      config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails
      Makefile: drop dependency between git-instaweb and gitweb
      Makefile: avoid timestamp updates to GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
      Makefile: silence perl/PM.stamp recipe
      setup_git_directory: delay core.bare/core.worktree errors
      add quieter versions of parse_{tree,commit}
      silence broken link warnings with revs->ignore_missing_links
      suppress errors on missing UNINTERESTING links

Junio C Hamano (3):
      t5407: use <<- to align the expected output
      xmmap(): drop "Out of memory?"
      Git 2.4.5

Matthieu Moy (2):
      rebase -i: demonstrate incorrect behavior of post-rewrite
      rebase -i: fix post-rewrite hook with failed exec command

Paul Tan (1):
      pull: remove --tags error in no merge candidates case

SZEDER Gábor (1):
      Documentation: include 'merge.branchdesc' for merge and config as well

Stefan Beller (1):
      Documentation/technical/pack-protocol: mention http as possible protocol