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Git 2.4.2 发布，该版本现已提供下载：v2.4.2.ZIP

更新内容如下：

* "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that
   is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs
   was very inefficient.

* "hash-object --literally" introduced in v2.2 was not prepared to
   take a really long object type name.

* "git rebase --quiet" was not quite quiet when there is nothing to
   do.

* The completion for "log --decorate=" parameter value was incorrect.

* "filter-branch" corrupted commit log message that ends with an
   incomplete line on platforms with some "sed" implementations that
   munge such a line. Work it around by avoiding to use "sed".

* "git daemon" fails to build from the source under NO_IPV6
   configuration (regression in 2.4).

* "git stash pop/apply" forgot to make sure that not just the working
   tree is clean but also the index is clean. The latter is important
   as a stash application can conflict and the index will be used for
   conflict resolution.

* We have prepended $GIT_EXEC_PATH and the path "git" is installed in
   (typically "/usr/bin") to $PATH when invoking subprograms and hooks
   for almost eternity, but the original use case the latter tried to
   support was semi-bogus (i.e. install git to /opt/foo/git and run it
   without having /opt/foo on $PATH), and more importantly it has
   become less and less relevant as Git grew more mainstream (i.e. the
   users would _want_ to have it on their $PATH). Stop prepending the
   path in which "git" is installed to users' $PATH, as that would
   interfere the command search order people depend on (e.g. they may
   not like versions of programs that are unrelated to Git in /usr/bin
   and want to override them by having different ones in /usr/local/bin
   and have the latter directory earlier in their $PATH).

还有一些常规修复，文档更新和代码清理。

更多内容请看发行说明。

Git是一个开源的分布式版本控制系统，用以有效、高速的处理从很小到非常大的项目版本管理。

开源中国 Git 代码托管平台：http://git.oschina.net/

Windows下的Git请看这里：http://www.oschina.net/p/msysgit

Git 是 Linus Torvalds 为了帮助管理 Linux 内核开发而开发的一个开放源码的版本控制软件。

Torvalds 开始着手开发 Git 是为了作为一种过渡方案来替代 BitKeeper，后者之前一直是 Linux 内核开发人员在全球使用的主要源代码工具。开放源码社区中的有些人觉得 BitKeeper 的许可证并不适合开放源码社区的工作，因此 Torvalds 决定着手研究许可证更为灵活的版本控制系统。尽管最初 Git 的开发是为了辅助 Linux 内核开发的过程，但是我们已经发现在很多其他自由软件项目中也使用了 Git。例如，X.org 最近就迁移到 Git 上来了，很多 Freedesktop.org 的项目也迁移到了 Git 上。