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1Git 2.37.2 Release Notes
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4This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated on the 'master'
5front since 2.37.1.
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7Fixes since v2.37.1
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9
10 * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable,
11 which shouldn't have. Fixed.
12
13 * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool".
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15 * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
16 at a bogus place, which as been corrected.
17
18 * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
19 the merge-ort strategy.
20
21 * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
22 against different end-user vim settings.
23
24 * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the
25 core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has
26 a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days.
27
28 * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
29 documentation mark-up have been corrected.
30
31 * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in
32 front of these messages.
33
34 * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from
35 the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose
36 of creating the tree object(s) from its input.
37
38 * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in
39 its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc.
40
41 * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
42 add some missing information to the documentation.
43
44 * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is
45 shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature.
46
47 * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
48 did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
49 has been corrected.
50
51 * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved.
52
53 * Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
54 "git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
55 line completion to include them in its offerings.
56
57 * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.
58
59 * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
60 osx-keychain (in contrib/).
61
62 * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.
63
64 * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
65 GC, which has been corrected.
66
67 * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
68 remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.
69
70 * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
71 CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.
72
73 * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been
74 corrected.
75
76 * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign
77 while recreating the throw-away merges.
78
79 * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been
80 corrected.
81
82 * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a
83 non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37.
84
85 * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information
86 in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected.
87
88Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.