# 2.36.1

Git v2.36.1 Release Notes =========================

Fixes since v2.36 -----------------

- "git submodule update" without pathspec should silently skip an uninitialized submodule, but it started to become noisy by mistake.

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- "diff-tree --stdin" has been broken for about a year, but 2.36 release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with \<pathspec\>, which in turn broke "gitk" and got noticed. This has been corrected by aligning its behaviour to that of "log".

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- Regression fix for 2.36 where "git name-rev" started to sometimes reference strings after they are freed.

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- "git show \<commit1\> \<commit2\>… — \<pathspec\>" lost the pathspec when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.

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- "git fast-export — \<pathspec\>" lost the pathspec when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.

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- "git format-patch \<args\> — \<pathspec\>" lost the pathspec when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.

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- Get rid of a bogus and over-eager coccinelle rule.

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- Correct choices of C compilers used in various CI jobs.

Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.