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-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.