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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Git 2.4.5

The latest maintenance release for Git v2.4.x series has been tagged.
  • The setup code used to die when core.bare and core.worktree are set inconsistently, even for commands that do not need working tree.
  • There was a dead code that used to handle git pull --tags and show special-cased error message, which was made irrelevant when the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days.
  • color.diff.plain was a misnomer; give it color.diff.context as a more logical synonym.
  • The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
  • Recent git prune traverses young unreachable objects to safekeep old objects in the reachability chain from them, which sometimes showed unnecessary error messages that are alarming.
  • git rebase -i fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely, when it was told to stop sequencing with exec insn).
It also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.

Enjoy.