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@@ -50,6 +50,47 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
choice of the hash algorithm from the source repository to the
newly created repository.
+ * "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learns a new configuration
+ guiDefault to optionally favor configured guitool over non-gui-tool
+ automatically when $DISPLAY is set.
+
+ * "git branch -d origin/master" would say "no such branch", but it is
+ likely a missed "-r" if refs/remotes/origin/master exists. The
+ command has been taught to give such a hint in its error message.
+
+ * Clean-up of the code path that deals with merge strategy option
+ handling in "git rebase".
+
+ * "git clone --local" stops copying from an original repository that
+ has symbolic links inside its $GIT_DIR; an error message when that
+ happens has been updated.
+
+ * "git branch --format=..." and "git format-patch --format=..."
+ learns "--omit-empty" to hide refs that whose formatting result
+ becomes an empty string from the output.
+
+ * The sendemail-validate validate hook learned to pass the total
+ number of input files and where in the sequence each invocation is
+ via environment variables.
+
+ * When "gc" needs to retain unreachable objects, packing them into
+ cruft packs (instead of exploding them into loose object files) has
+ been offered as a more efficient option for some time. Now the use
+ of cruft packs has been made the default and no longer considered
+ an experimental feature.
+
+ * The output given by "git blame" that attributes a line to contents
+ taken from the file specified by the "--contents" option shows it
+ differently from a line attributed to the working tree file.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to give the e-mail headers to the validate
+ hook by passing an extra argument from the command line.
+
+ * The credential subsystem learns to help OAuth framework.
+
+ * The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably
+ short limit, which has been removed.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -88,6 +129,37 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "git sparse-checkout" command learns a debugging aid for the sparse
rule definitions.
+ * "git write-tree" learns to work better with sparse-index.
+
+ * The on-disk reverse index that allows mapping from the pack offset
+ to the object name for the object stored at the offset has been
+ enabled by default.
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to validate the on-disk pack reverse index files.
+
+ * strtok() and strtok_r() are banned in this codebase.
+
+ * The detect-compilers script to help auto-tweaking the build system
+ had trouble working with compilers whose version number has extra
+ suffixes. The script has been taught that certain suffixes (like
+ "-win32" in "gcc 10-win32") can be safely stripped as they share
+ the same features and bugs with the version without the suffix.
+
+ * ctype tests have been taught to test EOF, too.
+
+ * The implementation of credential helpers used fgets() over fixed
+ size buffers to read protocol messages, causing the remainder of
+ the folded long line to trigger unexpected behaviour, which has
+ been corrected.
+
+ * The implementation of the default "negotiator", used to find common
+ ancestor over the network for object tranfer, used to be recursive;
+ it was updated to be iterative to conserve stackspace usage.
+
+ * Our custom callout formatter is no longer used in the documentation
+ formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better
+ output these days.
+
Fixes since v2.40
-----------------
@@ -193,6 +265,66 @@ Fixes since v2.40
/usr/bin/perl, which have been corrected.
(merge c1917156a0 jk/use-perl-path-consistently later to maint).
+ * Documentation mark-up fix.
+ (merge 78b6369e67 la/mfc-markup-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Doc toolchain update to remove old workaround for AsciiDoc.
+ (merge 8806120de6 fc/remove-header-workarounds-for-asciidoc later to maint).
+
+ * The userdiff regexp patterns for various filetypes that are built
+ into the system have been updated to avoid triggering regexp errors
+ from UTF-8 aware regex engines.
+ (merge be39144954 rs/userdiff-multibyte-regex later to maint).
+
+ * The approxidate() API has been simplified by losing an extra
+ function that did the same thing as another one.
+ (merge 8a7f0b666f rs/remove-approxidate-relative later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to replace a hardcoded constant with a CPP macro.
+ (merge c870de6502 rs/get-tar-commit-id-use-defined-const later to maint).
+
+ * Doc build simplification.
+ (merge 9a09ed3229 fc/doc-stop-using-manversion later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive" run from a subdirectory mishandled attributes and
+ paths outside the current directory.
+ (merge 92b1dd1b9e rs/archive-from-subdirectory-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * The code to parse capability list for v0 on-wire protocol fell into
+ an infinite loop when a capability appears multiple times, which
+ has been corrected.
+
+ * Geometric repacking ("git repack --geometric=<n>") in a repository
+ that borrows from an alternate object database had various corner
+ case bugs, which have been corrected.
+ (merge d85cd18777 ps/fix-geom-repack-with-alternates later to maint).
+
+ * The "%GT" placeholder for the "--format" option of "git log" and
+ friends caused BUG() to trigger on a commit signed with an unknown
+ key, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 7891e46585 jk/gpg-trust-level-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The completion script used to use bare "read" without the "-r"
+ option to read the contents of various state files, which risked
+ getting confused with backslashes in them. This has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 197152098a ek/completion-use-read-r-to-read-literally later to maint).
+
+ * A small API fix to the ort merge strategy backend.
+ (merge 000c4ceca7 en/ort-finalize-after-0-merges-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The commit object parser has been taught to be a bit more lenient
+ to parse timestamps on the author/committer line with a malformed
+ author/committer ident.
+ (merge 90ef0f14eb jk/parse-commit-with-malformed-ident later to maint).
+
+ * Retitle a test script with an overly narrow name.
+ (merge 8bb19c14fb ob/t3501-retitle later to maint).
+
+ * Doc update to clarify how text and eol attributes interact to
+ specify the end-of-line conversion.
+ (merge 6696077ace ah/doc-attributes-text later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint).
@@ -208,3 +340,9 @@ Fixes since v2.40
(merge cc48ddd937 jk/chainlint-fixes later to maint).
(merge 4833b08426 ow/ref-format-remove-unused-member later to maint).
(merge d0ea2ca1cf dw/doc-submittingpatches-grammofix later to maint).
+ (merge fd72637423 ar/t2024-checkout-output-fix later to maint).
+ (merge d45cbe3fe0 ob/sequencer-i18n-fix later to maint).
+ (merge b734fe49fd ob/messages-capitalize-exception later to maint).
+ (merge ad353d7e77 ma/gittutorial-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge a5855fd8d4 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation-part2 later to maint).
+ (merge 0c5308af30 sd/doc-gitignore-and-rm-cached later to maint).