Announcement: TortoiseGit 2.9 released

[Sven Strickroth]

Hi,

we're pround to announce TortoiseGit 2.9.

We thank all bug reporters, testers and translators for their help!

You can check for updates using the settings or the about dialog
(recommended) - or you can download the release here:
https://tortoisegit.org/download/

Changes since 2.8:
== Changes ==
* Support for Thesaurus was dropped
* Thin-Pack option was dropped from fetch/pull dialog (enabled by
default in Git)

== Features ==
* Fixed issue #3355: Adding file name extension in the Export dialog
* Update Scintilla to 4.2.0
* Update libgit to 2.22.0 based on Git for Windows sources
* Update TortoiseGitPLink to PuTTY PLink 0.73 (security fix, cf.
<https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html>)
* Update PuTTY binaries to 0.72
* Allow to disable "Working Tree Changes" in log dialog (using advanced
settings)
* Update Hunspell to 1.7.0
* Fixed issue #3363: Add option to show unlabeled most recent common
ancestor between all branches in Revision Graph
In the View menu you can now toggle the display of branchings and
mergings.
(This also fixes issue #2110: The Revision Graph is invalid if first
commit does not contains the files)
* Fixed issue #3379: Super-project-pointer should show in revision
graph of submodule
* Fixed issue #3421: Option to show Log IDs instead of SHA-1 in
TortoiseGitBlame
* Fixed issue #3343: Provide a confirm dialog instead of executing the
revert operation directly
* Ref Browse: Show date and author of annotated tag as well
* Show whitespaces in patch views
* Fixed issue #3414: Allow users to not display all tags on revision
graph
* Add find functionality to revision graph
* Fixed issue #3427: FileDiffDlg: Provide a way to view the diff for a
pull request branch (in diff options)
* Fixed issue #3440: (GUI) Animation should stop when finished, not
halt
* Fixed issue #3395: TortoiseGit now uses the Windows "Default
Application" framework for managing file associations and protocol
handlers
* Fixed issue #3436: Please document rolling back a file to a previous
revision in Undo Changes

== Bug Fixes ==
* Implement generic fix for "libgit2 returned the requested type does
not match the type in ODB"
* Fixed issue #3342: Windows Explorer context menu: TortoiseGit doesn't
recognize local Git working copy if "gitdir-redirection" is used
within same folder
* Fixed issue #3349: View patch missing color
* Fixed issue #3365: Ignore items by extension handles
files/directories with no extension poorly
* Fixed issue #3393: TortoiseGitIDiff crashes with a very small window
size
* Fixed issue #3397: Create Repository make a useless symlink on
Windows 10
* Fixed issue #3413: Putty Agent (pageant) unable to start when file
"C:\Program" exists
* Fixed issue #3429: Optimize progress output with multiple git
commands
* Fixed issue #3434: Commit dialog's "View Patch>>" shows nothing when
dialog's right border is on the screen's right border
* Fix potential crashes in TortoiseGitBlame when .mailmap support was
enabled
* Fix potential crash when log is still calculating diffs and rebase
dialog loads
* Prevent possible crash after rebase when writing to reflog fails
* Fixed issue #3426: Ref Browse: Speed up display when having thousands
of refs
* TortoiseGitMerge: When ignoring comments in TMerge, ignore comment
block markers inside strings
* Fix start commit hook not working for repository hooks
* Fix potential crashes when log is still loading and submodule diff is
requested

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Best regards,
Sven Strickroth
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