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1 Git v2.4.1 Release Notes

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4 Fixes since v2.4

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7 * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory

8 showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the

9 directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also,

10 when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff"

11 and compare the file with the file with the same name in the

12 directory, instead of refusing to run.

14 * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"

15 that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email

16 entries in it.

18 * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost

19 the daylight-saving-time offset.

21 * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no

22 object type that is "bl".

24 * Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files

25 that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the

26 beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration

27 files already.

29 * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a

30 slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code

31 becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning.

33 * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the

34 ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but

35 the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the

36 root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to

37 do, but still valid).

39 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code

40 clean-ups.