Git v2.9.1 Release Notes

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Fixes since v2.9

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* When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a

connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around

for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has

been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.

* The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format

string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring

--no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to

a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as

"auto".

* "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"

option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the

bitmap index.

* "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited

by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire

file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,

which has been fixed.

Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.