[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.2

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Fri Feb 16 2018 - 12:55:40 EST


The latest maintenance release Git v2.16.2 is now available at
the usual places, with small fixes that are already in the
'master' front.

The tarballs are found at:

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

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.16.2'
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://github.com/gitster/git

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Git v2.16.2 Release Notes
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Fixes since v2.16.1
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* An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been
fixed.

* "git svn dcommit" did not take into account the fact that a
svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers
to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when
svn.pushmergeinfo option is set.

* "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when
resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link.

* "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists
as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly
removed it upon a failure of the operation.

* "git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in
the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected.

* "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as
they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes
anyway.


Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

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Changes since v2.16.1 are as follows:

Andreas G. Schacker (1):
doc/read-tree: remove obsolete remark

Daniel Knittl-Frank (1):
describe: prepend "tags/" when describing tags with embedded name

Jason Merrill (1):
git-svn: fix svn.pushmergeinfo handling of svn+ssh usernames.

Jeff King (4):
t5600: fix outdated comment about unborn HEAD
t5600: modernize style
clone: factor out dir_exists() helper
clone: do not clean up directories we didn't create

Junio C Hamano (2):
merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to symbolic link merge
Git 2.16.2

Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy (1):
add--interactive: ignore submodule changes except HEAD

Renà Scharfe (9):
commit: avoid allocation in clear_commit_marks_many()
commit: use clear_commit_marks_many() in remove_redundant()
ref-filter: use clear_commit_marks_many() in do_merge_filter()
object: add clear_commit_marks_all()
bisect: avoid using the rev_info flag leak_pending
bundle: avoid using the rev_info flag leak_pending
checkout: avoid using the rev_info flag leak_pending
revision: remove the unused flag leak_pending
commit: remove unused function clear_commit_marks_for_object_array()

Thomas Gummerer (1):
stash: don't delete untracked files that match pathspec

Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason (2):
perf: amend the grep tests to test grep.threads
cat-file doc: document that -e will return some output