Git v2.45.3 Release Notes
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This primarily is to backport various small fixes accumulated on the
'master' front during the development towards Git 2.46, the next
feature release.
Fixes since v2.45.2
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* Git-GUI has a new maintainer, Johannes Sixt.
* Tests that try to corrupt in-repository files in chunked format did
not work well on macOS due to its broken "mv", which has been
worked around.
* The maximum size of attribute files is enforced more consistently.
* Unbreak CI jobs so that we do not attempt to use Python 2 that has
been removed from the platform.
* Git 2.43 started using the tree of HEAD as the source of attributes
in a bare repository, which has severe performance implications.
For now, revert the change, without ripping out a more explicit
support for the attr.tree configuration variable.
* Windows CI running in GitHub Actions started complaining about the
order of arguments given to calloc(); the imported regex code uses
the wrong order almost consistently, which has been corrected.
* The SubmittingPatches document now refers folks to manpages
translation project.
* "git rebase --signoff" used to forget that it needs to add a
sign-off to the resulting commit when told to continue after a
conflict stops its operation.
* The procedure to build multi-pack-index got confused by the
replace-refs mechanism, which has been corrected by disabling the
latter.
* "git stash -S" did not handle binary files correctly, which has
been corrected.
* A scheduled "git maintenance" job is expected to work on all
repositories it knows about, but it stopped at the first one that
errored out. Now it keeps going.
* zsh can pretend to be a normal shell pretty well except for some
glitches that we tickle in some of our scripts. Work them around
so that "vimdiff" and our test suite works well enough with it.
* Command line completion support for zsh (in contrib/) has been
updated to stop exposing internal state to end-user shell
interaction.
* The documentation for "git diff --name-only" has been clarified
that it is about showing the names in the post-image tree.
* The chainlint script (invoked during "make test") did nothing when
it failed to detect the number of available CPUs. It now falls
back to 1 CPU to avoid the problem.
* "git init" in an already created directory, when the user
configuration has includeif.onbranch, started to fail recently,
which has been corrected.
* The safe.directory configuration knob has been updated to
optionally allow leading path matches.
* An overly large ".gitignore" files are now rejected silently.
* Fix for an embarrassing typo that prevented Python2 tests from running
anywhere.
* Varargs functions that are unannotated as printf-like or execl-like
have been annotated as such.
* The "-k" and "--rfc" options of "format-patch" will now error out
when used together, as one tells us not to add anything to the
title of the commit, and the other one tells us to add "RFC" in
addition to "PATCH".
* When the user adds to "git rebase -i" instruction to "pick" a merge
commit, the error experience is not pleasant. Such an error is now
caught earlier in the process that parses the todo list.
* We forgot to normalize the result of getcwd() to NFC on macOS where
all other paths are normalized, which has been corrected. This still
does not address the case where core.precomposeUnicode configuration
is not defined globally.
* Earlier we stopped using the tree of HEAD as the default source of
attributes in a bare repository, but failed to document it. This
has been corrected.
* An unused extern declaration for mingw has been removed to prevent
it from causing build failure.
* A helper function shared between two tests had a copy-paste bug,
which has been corrected.
* "git fetch-pack -k -k" without passing "--lock-pack" (which we
never do ourselves) did not work at all, which has been corrected.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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