From 9eabf5b536662000f79978c4d1b6e4eff5c8d785 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 13:49:59 -0700 Subject: Git 2.4.2 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/git.txt | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..250cdc423c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Git v2.4.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.4.1 +------------------ + + * "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that + is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs + was very inefficient. + + * "hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to + take a really long object type name. + + * "git rebase --quiet" was not quite quiet when there is nothing to + do. + + * The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect. + + * "filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an + incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that + munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed". + + * "git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6 + configuration (regression in 2.4). + + * "git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working + tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important + as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for + conflict resolution. + + * We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in + (typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks + for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to + support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it + without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has + become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the + users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the + path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would + interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may + not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin + and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin + and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH). + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 5808df6a83..f582742bc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.4.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.1] +* link:v2.4.2/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.2] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.4.2.txt[2.4.2], link:RelNotes/2.4.1.txt[2.4.1], link:RelNotes/2.4.0.txt[2.4]. -- cgit v1.2.3