2.30.1

Git v2.30.1 Release Notes =========================

This release is primarily to merge fixes accumulated on the ’master’ front to prepare for 2.31 release that are still relevant to 2.30.x maintenance track.

Fixes since v2.30 -----------------

• "git fetch --recurse-submodules" failed to update a submodule when it has an uninitialized (hence of no interest to the user) sub-submodule, which has been corrected.

• Command line error of "git rebase" are diagnosed earlier.

• "git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working tree.

• Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either ’-’ or ’x’ for group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent directory and make these fields ’S’ or ’s’ instead, causing test failures.

• "git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined even once.

• "git mergetool --tool-help" was broken in 2.29 and failed to list all the available tools.

• Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac.

• Newline characters in the host and path part of git: now forbidden.

• When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one side, "git log --cherry-pick A…B" did not exclude them all when a commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it does.

• Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become incorrect.

• Doc for packfile URI feature has been clarified.

• The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up.

• Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can find more failures in a single run.

Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.