Git 2.4.6 Open Source Distributed Version Control System Fixes Five Issues | Linux Today

Git 2.4.6 Open Source Distributed Version Control System Fixes Five Issues

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Marius Nestor
Jul 16, 2015

Git 2.4.6 is here to fix issues with the “git clone –depth=” and “git fetch –depth=” commands related to a shallow transfer request, which was generated even to upload-packs that didn’t support the functionality. Additionally, issues with the bash scriptlet written by the tcsh completion has been addressesed and will no longer fail for users with noclobber set, and the “git fsck” command no longer ignores invalid or missing objects that have been recorded in reglog.

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Marius Nestor

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