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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt index 3e1f0bb31b..3db67f4c55 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt @@ -14,4 +14,42 @@ Fixes since v2.8.1 * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment. + * "index-pack --keep=<msg>" was broken since v2.1.0 timeframe. + + * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git + config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status + when there was no matching configuration. + + * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git + rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's + option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. + + * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't + work across remote-curl transport. + + * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff + code. + + * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain + corner cases in its error codepath. + + * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a + repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git + subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch + references when we are not in a repository. + + * "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides + deleted. + + * "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format + when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them. + + * When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding + "git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log + messages from all the squashed commits. + + * "git merge FETCH_HEAD" dereferenced NULL pointer when merging + nothing into an unborn history (which is arguably unusual usage, + which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it). + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |