From 7d8dc5a1af9da32ac7454499f308db757eb19642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:11:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Downmerge a handful of topics for 2.38.2 --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RelNotes | 2 +- 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..00d4b77655 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Git 2.38.2 Release Notes +======================== + +This is to backport various fixes accumulated during the development +towards Git 2.39, the next feature release. + + +Fixes since v2.38.1 +------------------- + + * Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid + in C99. + + * The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory + accesses, which has been corrected. + + * "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch + refspec, which has been corrected. + + * "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin" + options used together without a good reason. + + * Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation. + + * "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used + from the memory, which has been fixed. + + * "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit + itself, which has been corrected. + + * In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a + merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and + led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected. + + * Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can + find expected error messages in the log. + + * Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a + substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access. + + * The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read + from "ssh-keygen". + + * "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure, + which has been corrected. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes index 141903f31a..0fb916d33e 120000 --- a/RelNotes +++ b/RelNotes @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.1.txt \ No newline at end of file +Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.2.txt \ No newline at end of file