14 DAY TRIAL // The development team behind Git, the world's most popular open-source distributed version control system, is glad to announce the immediate availability for download of the sixth maintenance release of Git 2.4.
According to the changelog, attached at the end of the article, Git 2.4.6 is here to fix issues with the "git clone --depth=< depth >" and "git fetch --depth=< 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 have been addressed, and it 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.
Last but not least, the "git format-patch --ignore-if-upstream A..B" command now accepts tags as boundary commits, and some issues with the latest Mac OS X operating system have been patched, allowing detection of AC power in the sample pre-auto-gc script.
Of course, the new point release of Git 2.4 includes documentation updates, essential code clean-ups, and typo fixes. Download Git 2.4.6 for Linux and Mac OS X operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website.