[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.14.2

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Tue Sep 26 2017 - 02:09:44 EST


The latest maintenance release Git v2.14.2 is now available at the
usual places. In addition to the cvsserver related fixes that
appear in 2.10.5, 2.11.4, 2.12.5 and 2.13.6 announced separately,
this also includes various fixes that were merged already to the
'master' branch.

The tarballs are found at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.14.2'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:

url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://github.com/gitster/git

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Git v2.14.2 Release Notes
=========================

Fixes since v2.14.1
-------------------

* Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the
build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a
hand-rolled substitute.

* "%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI
color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now
honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness
of the output medium.

* The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be
interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but
weren't, which has been fixed.

* Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have
been fixed.

* "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not
edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been
corrected.

* When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the
project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory.

* A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed
that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache
daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to
ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF.

* Some versions of GnuPG fail to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned
and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it
around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test.

* "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which
has been fixed---it now shows nothing.

* The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.

* "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not
propagated down to the submodules, but now it is.

* Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option
from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been
fixed.

* "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet
option down to submodules.

* "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer
block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding
an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case.

* "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz
offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the
current time, which has been corrected.

* Memory leaks in a few error codepaths have been plugged.

* bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command
substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched.

* "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
codes; this has been corrected.

* When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process
asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program
the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected.

* "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a
taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line
endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git()
that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index
entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply"
is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all.
This has been fixed.

* Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left
the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD,
which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was
a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed.

* "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the
export-ignore attribute.

* "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git shell" by default,
as it is old and largely unmaintained.

* Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of
backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have
been corrected.

Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> for finding the
unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for
finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts.

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Changes since v2.14.1 are as follows:

Andreas Heiduk (2):
doc: add missing values "none" and "default" for diff.wsErrorHighlight
doc: clarify "config --bool" behaviour with empty string

Anthony Sottile (1):
git-grep: correct exit code with --quiet and -L

Brandon Williams (2):
submodule--helper: teach push-check to handle HEAD
clone: teach recursive clones to respect -q

Christian Couder (2):
refs: use skip_prefix() in ref_is_hidden()
sub-process: print the cmd when a capability is unsupported

Dimitrios Christidis (1):
fmt-merge-msg: fix coding style

Heiko Voigt (1):
t5526: fix some broken && chains

Hielke Christian Braun (1):
gitweb: skip unreadable subdirectories

Jeff King (32):
t1414: document some reflog-walk oddities
revision: disallow reflog walking with revs->limited
log: clarify comment about reflog cycles
log: do not free parents when walking reflog
get_revision_1(): replace do-while with an early return
rev-list: check reflog_info before showing usage
reflog-walk: stop using fake parents
reflog-walk: apply --since/--until to reflog dates
check return value of verify_ref_format()
docs/for-each-ref: update pointer to color syntax
t: use test_decode_color rather than literal ANSI codes
ref-filter: simplify automatic color reset
ref-filter: abstract ref format into its own struct
ref-filter: move need_color_reset_at_eol into ref_format
ref-filter: provide a function for parsing sort options
ref-filter: make parse_ref_filter_atom a private function
ref-filter: factor out the parsing of sorting atoms
ref-filter: pass ref_format struct to atom parsers
color: check color.ui in git_default_config()
for-each-ref: load config earlier
rev-list: pass diffopt->use_colors through to pretty-print
pretty: respect color settings for %C placeholders
ref-filter: consult want_color() before emitting colors
t6018: flesh out empty input/output rev-list tests
revision: add rev_input_given flag
rev-list: don't show usage when we see empty ref patterns
revision: do not fallback to default when rev_input_given is set
hashcmp: use memcmp instead of open-coded loop
doc: fix typo in sendemail.identity
shell: drop git-cvsserver support by default
archimport: use safe_pipe_capture for user input
cvsimport: shell-quote variable used in backticks

Johannes Schindelin (2):
run_processes_parallel: change confusing task_cb convention
git-gui (MinGW): make use of MSys2's msgfmt

Jonathan Nieder (4):
vcs-svn: remove more unused prototypes and declarations
vcs-svn: remove custom mode constants
vcs-svn: remove repo_delete wrapper function
vcs-svn: move remaining repo_tree functions to fast_export.h

Jonathan Tan (7):
fsck: remove redundant parse_tree() invocation
object: remove "used" field from struct object
fsck: cleanup unused variable
Documentation: migrate sub-process docs to header
sub-process: refactor handshake to common function
tests: ensure fsck fails on corrupt packfiles
Doc: clarify that pack-objects makes packs, plural

Junio C Hamano (11):
http.c: http.sslcert and http.sslkey are both pathnames
perl/Git.pm: typofix in a comment
Prepare for 2.14.2
RelNotes: further fixes for 2.14.2 from the master front
cvsserver: move safe_pipe_capture() to the main package
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture for `constant commands` as well
Git 2.10.5
Git 2.11.4
Git 2.12.5
Git 2.13.6
Git 2.14.2

Kaartic Sivaraam (1):
commit: check for empty message before the check for untouched template

Kevin Daudt (1):
stash: prevent warning about null bytes in input

Lars Schneider (7):
t0021: keep filter log files on comparison
t0021: make debug log file name configurable
t0021: write "OUT <size>" only on success
convert: put the flags field before the flag itself for consistent style
convert: move multiple file filter error handling to separate function
convert: refactor capabilities negotiation
convert: add "status=delayed" to filter process protocol

Martin Ãgren (7):
builtin.h: take over documentation from api-builtin.txt
git.c: let builtins opt for handling `pager.foo` themselves
git.c: provide setup_auto_pager()
t7006: add tests for how git tag paginates
tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only
tag: change default of `pager.tag` to "on"
git.c: ignore pager.* when launching builtin as dashed external

Michael Forney (1):
scripts: use "git foo" not "git-foo"

Michael J Gruber (6):
Documentation: use proper wording for ref format strings
Documentation/git-for-each-ref: clarify peeling of tags for --format
Documentation/git-merge: explain --continue
merge: clarify call chain
merge: split write_merge_state in two
merge: save merge state earlier

Philip Oakley (4):
git-gui: remove duplicate entries from .gitconfig's gui.recentrepo
git gui: cope with duplicates in _get_recentrepo
git gui: de-dup selected repo from recentrepo history
git gui: allow for a long recentrepo list

Phillip Wood (7):
am: remember --rerere-autoupdate setting
rebase: honor --rerere-autoupdate
rebase -i: honor --rerere-autoupdate
t3504: use test_commit
cherry-pick/revert: remember --rerere-autoupdate
cherry-pick/revert: reject --rerere-autoupdate when continuing
am: fix signoff when other trailers are present

Ramsay Jones (2):
credential-cache: interpret an ECONNRESET as an EOF
builtin/add: add detail to a 'cannot chmod' error message

Renà Scharfe (23):
bswap: convert to unsigned before shifting in get_be32
bswap: convert get_be16, get_be32 and put_be32 to inline functions
add MOVE_ARRAY
use MOVE_ARRAY
apply: use COPY_ARRAY and MOVE_ARRAY in update_image()
ls-files: don't try to prune an empty index
dir: support platforms that require aligned reads
pack-objects: remove unnecessary NULL check
t0001: skip test with restrictive permissions if getpwd(3) respects them
test-path-utils: handle const parameter of basename and dirname
t3700: fix broken test under !POSIXPERM
t4062: use less than 256 repetitions in regex
sha1_file: avoid comparison if no packed hash matches the first byte
apply: remove prefix_length member from apply_state
merge: use skip_prefix()
win32: plug memory leak on realloc() failure in syslog()
fsck: free buffers on error in fsck_obj()
sha1_file: release delta_stack on error in unpack_entry()
t1002: stop using sum(1)
t5001: add tests for export-ignore attributes and exclude pathspecs
archive: factor out helper functions for handling attributes
archive: don't queue excluded directories
commit: remove unused inline function single_parent()

Santiago Torres (1):
t: lib-gpg: flush gpg agent on startup

Stefan Beller (3):
t8008: rely on rev-parse'd HEAD instead of sha1 value
sha1_file: make read_info_alternates static
submodule.sh: remove unused variable

Torsten BÃgershausen (2):
convert: add SAFE_CRLF_KEEP_CRLF
apply: file commited with CRLF should roundtrip diff and apply

Urs Thuermann (1):
git svn fetch: Create correct commit timestamp when using --localtime

brian m. carlson (2):
vcs-svn: remove unused prototypes
vcs-svn: rename repo functions to "svn_repo"

joernchen (1):
cvsserver: use safe_pipe_capture instead of backticks

Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason (1):
tests: don't give unportable ">" to "test" built-in, use -gt