git-2.51.1

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Git 2.51.1 Release Notes

Fixes since Git 2.51.0

• The "do you still use it?" message given by a command that is deeply deprecated and allow us to suggest alternatives has been updated.

• The compatObjectFormat extension is used to hide an incomplete feature that is not yet usable for any purpose other than developing the feature further. Document it as such to discourage its use by mere mortals.

• Manual page for "gitk" is updated with the current maintainer's name.

• Update the instructions for using GGG in the MyFirstContribution document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against git/git instead of gitgitgadget/git.

• Clang-format update to let our control macros be formatted the way we had them traditionally, e.g., "for_each_string_list_item()" without space before the parentheses.

• A few places where a size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without checking has been updated to use the existing helper function.

• The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API did not clear its internal state, making an initial delay value larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected.

• Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work very well; serialize their execution to work around this problem.

• Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectively enable tracing options, so that our tests can continue to work.

• During interactive rebase, using 'drop' on a merge commit led to an error, which has been corrected.

• "git refs migrate" to migrate the reflog entries from a refs backend to another had a handful of bugs squashed.

• "git push" had a code path that led to BUG() but it should have been a die(), as it is a response to a usual but invalid end-user action to attempt pushing an object that does not exist.

• Various bugs about rename handling in "ort" merge strategy have been fixed.

• "git diff --no-index" run inside a subdirectory under control of a Git repository operated at the top of the working tree and stripped the prefix from the output, and oddballs like "-" (stdin) did not work correctly because of it. Correct the set-up by undoing what the set-up sequence did to cwd and prefix.

• Various options to "git diff" that make comparison ignore certain aspects of the differences (like "space changes are ignored", "differences in lines that match these regular expressions are ignored") did not work well with "--name-only" and friends.

• Under a race against another process that is repacking the repository, especially a partially cloned one, "git fetch" may mistakenly think some objects we do have are missing, which has been corrected.

• "git repack --path-walk" lost objects in some corner cases, which has been corrected. cf. <CABPp-BHFxxGrqKc0m==TjQNjDGdO=H5Rf6EFsf2nfE1=TuraOQ@…>

• Fixes multiple crashes around midx write-out codepaths.

• A broken or malicious "git fetch" can say that it has the same object for many many times, and the upload-pack serving it can exhaust memory storing them redundantly, which has been corrected.

• A corner case bug in "git log -L..." has been corrected.

• Some among "git add -p" and friends ignored color.diff and/or color.ui configuration variables, which is an old regression, which has been corrected.

• "git rebase -i" failed to clean-up the commit log message when the command commits the final one in a chain of "fixup" commands, which has been corrected.

• Deal more gracefully with directory / file conflicts when the files backend is used for ref storage, by failing only the ones that are involved in the conflict while allowing others.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

39530fd198 Update to btrfs-progs-v6.17.
b73691ef0b Update to protobuf-33.0.
a551437c4b Update to glm-1.0.2.
3ad12a3fbc Update to git-2.51.1.
ac67c79fd0 Update to thunar-4.20.6.

[Bruce Dubbs]

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