2.4.4

Git v2.4.4 Release Notes ========================

Fixes since v2.4.3 ------------------

• l10n updates for German.

• An earlier leakfix to bitmap testing code was incomplete.

• "git clean pathspec…" tried to lstat(2) and complain even for paths outside the given pathspec.

• Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request. Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a request first into core (to a reasonable limit).

• The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through). It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange things, then why not?

• Make "git stash something --help" error out, so that users can safely say "git stash drop --help".

• Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated concepts.

• Catch a programmer mistake to feed a pointer not an array to ARRAY_SIZE() macro, by using a couple of GCC extensions.

Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups.