• ITUGLIB Update: Git 2.37.2 Available

    From Randall@rsbecker@nexbridge.com to comp.sys.tandem on Fri Aug 12 13:55:25 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.tandem

    Hi Everyone,
    Git 2.37.2 is now available on the ITUGLIB website for J-series and L-series. While this is a patch release, there are a lot of things that were fixed. I have not received notification on when 2.38.0 is coming out. A portion of the release notes from the Git team is here:
    Git 2.37.2 Release Notes
    ========================
    This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated on the 'master'
    front since 2.37.1.
    Fixes since v2.37.1
    -------------------
    * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable,
    which shouldn't have. Fixed.
    * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool".
    * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
    at a bogus place, which as been corrected.
    * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
    the merge-ort strategy.
    * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
    against different end-user vim settings.
    * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the
    core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has
    a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days.
    * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
    documentation mark-up have been corrected.
    * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in
    front of these messages.
    * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from
    the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose
    of creating the tree object(s) from its input.
    * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in
    its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc.
    * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
    add some missing information to the documentation.
    * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is
    shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature.
    * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
    did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
    has been corrected.
    * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved.
    * Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
    "git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
    line completion to include them in its offerings.
    * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.
    * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
    osx-keychain (in contrib/).
    * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.
    * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
    GC, which has been corrected.
    * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
    remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.
    * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
    CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.
    * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been
    corrected.
    * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign
    while recreating the throw-away merges.
    * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been
    corrected.
    * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a
    non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37.
    * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information
    in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected.
    Regards,
    Randall Becker
    On Behalf of the ITUGLIB Technical Committee
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