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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9768293831a5..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,90 +0,0 @@ -Git v2.9.4 Release Notes -======================== - -Fixes since v2.9.3 ------------------- - - * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at - the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not - built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git" - potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone - programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that - calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to - make it harder to make mistakes. - - * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with - merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it - shouldn't. - - * The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format - --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone) - has been added. - - * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow - ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the - receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be - discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility - to the users. It does so now. - - * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a - hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been - corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is - shared with. - - * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments - the same way as existing mainstream platforms. The code now moves - "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/") - that strips the trailing slash of '/'. - - * The "t/" hierarchy is prone to get an unusual pathname; "make test" - has been taught to make sure they do not contain paths that cannot - be checked out on Windows (and the mechanism can be reusable to - catch pathnames that are not portable to other platforms as need - arises). - - * When "git merge-recursive" works on history with many criss-cross - merges in "verbose" mode, the names the command assigns to the - virtual merge bases could have overwritten each other by unintended - reuse of the same piece of memory. - - * "git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice - message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything - that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is - an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on. The - advice message has been squelched in this case. - - * "git difftool" by default ignores the error exit from the backend - commands it spawns, because often they signal that they found - differences by exiting with a non-zero status code just like "diff" - does; the exit status codes 126 and above however are special in - that they are used to signal that the command is not executable, - does not exist, or killed by a signal. "git difftool" has been - taught to notice these exit status codes. - - * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored, - which has been corrected. - - * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration - variable definition at the end of the search order was described in - git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely - place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot - override, and if so how?" - - * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open - a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then - finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either - removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a - subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the - subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is - made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has - the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag - to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT). - - * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name - begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it - confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with - an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive - pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access - (i.e. the one whose name is "--help"). - -Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |