[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.3.4

Junio C Hamano
2015-03-23T21:36:25Z

The latest maintenance release Git v2.3.4 is now available at the
usual places. It is comprised of 22 non-merge commits since v2.3.3,
contributed by 9 people, 1 of which is a new face. All these fixes
have already been in the 'master' branch for some time.

The tarballs are found at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.3.4'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:

url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git

Karthik Nayak joined the Git development community as a new
contributor whose contributions weren't in v2.3.3. Welcome.

Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows.
Thanks for your continued support.

Alexander Kuleshov, Eric Sunshine, Junio C Hamano, Kyle J. McKay,
Michael J Gruber, René Scharfe, SZEDER Gábor, and Torsten
Bögershausen.

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Git v2.3.4 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.3.3
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* The 'color.status.unmerged' configuration was not described.

* "git log --decorate" did not reset colors correctly around the
branch names.

* "git -C '' subcmd" refused to work in the current directory, unlike
"cd ''" which silently behaves as a no-op.

* "git imap-send" learned to optionally talk with an IMAP server via
libcURL; because there is no other option when Git is built with
NO_OPENSSL option, use that codepath by default under such
configuration.

* A workaround for certain build of GPG that triggered false breakage
in a test has been added.

* "git rebase -i" recently started to include the number of
commits in the insn sheet to be processed, but on a platform
that prepends leading whitespaces to "wc -l" output, the numbers
are shown with extra whitespaces that aren't necessary.

* We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH
transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git
correctly.

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

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Changes since v2.3.3 are as follows:

Alexander Kuleshov (1):
git: make was_alias and done_help non-static

Eric Sunshine (2):
rebase-interactive: suppress whitespace preceding item count
rebase-interactive: re-word "item count" comment

Junio C Hamano (8):
Documentation/config.txt: avoid unnecessary negation
Documentation/config.txt: explain multi-valued variables once
Documentation/config.txt: describe the structure first and then meaning
Documentation/config.txt: have a separate "Values" section
Documentation/config.txt: describe 'color' value type in the "Values" section
Documentation/config.txt: simplify boolean description in the syntax section
log --decorate: do not leak "commit" color into the next item
Git 2.3.4

Karthik Nayak (1):
git: treat "git -C '<path>'" as a no-op when <path> is empty

Kyle J. McKay (2):
imap-send: use cURL automatically when NO_OPENSSL defined
t7510: do not fail when gpg warns about insecure memory

Michael J Gruber (1):
config,completion: add color.status.unmerged

René Scharfe (2):
zlib: initialize git_zstream in git_deflate_init{,_gzip,_raw}
use isxdigit() for checking if a character is a hexadecimal digit

SZEDER Gábor (2):
completion: add a test for __git_remotes() helper function
completion: simplify __git_remotes()

Torsten Bögershausen (3):
connect.c: allow ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]/repo.git
t5601: add more test cases for IPV6
t5500: show user name and host in diag-url