2.15.2

Git v2.15.2 Release Notes =========================

Fixes since v2.15.1 -------------------

• Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been optimized again for most trivial cases.

• The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.

• Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been corrected.

• When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has been corrected.

• Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the "--copy" option of "git branch".

• "git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change" triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed.

• The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed.

• The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been fixed (or "papered over").

• "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream, which was corrected.

• A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected their error output. These have been corrected.

• Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as it was clear what it computed but not why/what for.

• This release also contains the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version of Git. See its release notes for details.

Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.