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- (merge cfb19ae05f rs/combine-diff-with-incompatible-options later to maint).
+Git v2.38 Release Notes
+=======================
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git remote show [-n] frotz" now pays attention to negative
+ pathspec.
+
+ * "git push" sometimes perform poorly when reachability bitmaps are
+ used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by
+ bitmaps. The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced
+ to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push".
+
+ * "git grep -m<max-hits>" is a way to limit the hits shown per file.
+
+ * "git merge-tree" learned a new mode where it takes two commits and
+ computes a tree that would result in the merge commit, if the
+ histories leading to these two commits were to be merged.
+
+ * "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to
+ move a path between directories that are "in cone" (i.e. expected
+ to be materialized in the working tree) and "out of cone"
+ (i.e. expected to be hidden). The handling of such cases has been
+ improved.
+
+ * Earlier, HTTP transport clients learned to tell the server side
+ what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but
+ this was done only for some requests but not others.
+
+ * Introduce a discovery.barerepository configuration variable that
+ allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories.
+
+ * Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been
+ tweaked.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Collection of what is referenced by objects in promisor packs have
+ been optimized to inspect these objects in the in-pack order.
+
+ * Introduce a helper to see if a branch is already being worked on
+ (hence should not be newly checked out in a working tree), which
+ performs much better than the existing find_shared_symref() to
+ replace many uses of the latter.
+
+ * Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then by default) avoid
+ spawning an external "gzip" process when creating ".tar.gz" (and
+ ".tgz") archives.
+
+ * Allow large objects read from a packstream to be streamed into a
+ loose object file straight, without having to keep it in-core as a
+ whole.
+
+ * Further preparation to turn git-submodule.sh into a builtin
+ continues.
+
+ * Apply Coccinelle rule to turn raw memmove() into MOVE_ARRAY() cpp
+ macro, which would improve maintainability and readability.
+
+ * Teach "make all" to build gitweb as well.
+
+ * Tweak tests so that they still work when the "git init" template
+ did not create .git/info directory.
+
+ * Add Coccinelle rules to detect the pattern of initializing and then
+ finalizing a structure without using it in between at all, which
+ happens after code restructuring and the compilers fail to
+ recognize as an unused variable.
+
+ * The code to convert between GPG trust level strings and internal
+ constants we use to represent them have been cleaned up.
+
+ * Support for libnettle as SHA256 implementation has been added.
+
+ * The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved.
+
+ * A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
+ macro has been improved.
+
+ * API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser.
+
+ * Omit fsync-related trace2 entries when their values are all zero.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.37
+-----------------
+
+ * Rewrite of "git add -i" in C that appeared in Git 2.25 didn't
+ correctly record a removed file to the index, which was fixed.
+
+ * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is
+ shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature.
- (merge ac7667bd44 ac/bitmap-format-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
+ add some missing information to the documentation.
- (merge eb1cd60290 ab/test-quoting-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in
+ its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc.
- (merge 817b0f6027 ro/mktree-allow-missing-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from
+ the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose
+ of creating the tree object(s) from its input.
- (merge a1fd2cf8cd dr/i18n-die-warn-error-usage later to maint).
+
+ * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in
+ front of these messages.
- (merge 54e51e559e ds/git-rebase-doc-markup later to maint).
+
+ * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
+ documentation mark-up have been corrected.
- (merge d6c9a71755 gg/worktree-from-the-above later to maint).
+
+ * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the
+ core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has
+ a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days.
- (merge f3d7623a13 fr/vimdiff-layout-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
+ against different end-user vim settings.
- (merge 751e165424 en/merge-dual-dir-renames-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Plug various memory leaks.
+ (merge ece3974ba6 ab/leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * Plug various memory leaks in test-tool commands.
+ (merge f40a693450 ab/test-tool-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
+ the merge-ort strategy.
- (merge 04393ae7f7 jk/diff-files-cleanup-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
+ GC, which has been corrected.
+ (merge e0ad13977a jc/resolve-undo later to maint).
+
+ * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
+ remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.
+ (merge cb88b37cb9 hx/lookup-commit-in-graph-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
+ did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge daf7898abb jk/clone-unborn-confusion later to maint).
+
+ * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
+ at a bogus place, which as been corrected.
- (merge ccc7b5148b js/vimdiff-quotepath-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool"
- (merge df534dcbaa js/shortlog-sort-stably later to maint).
+
+ * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable,
+ which shouldn't have. Fixed.
- (merge 7253f7ca9f js/ci-github-workflow-markup later to maint).
+
+ * A fix for a regression in test framework.
- (merge 5fd9d1738e jk/revisions-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
- (merge 1971510c35 pb/diff-doc-raw-format later to maint).
- (merge a3ba4fa715 cr/setup-bug-typo later to maint).
- (merge 85845580d9 ds/vscode-settings later to maint).
- (merge ec2f6c0cca en/t6429-test-must-be-empty-fix later to maint).
- (merge 14deb585fb tb/pack-objects-remove-pahole-comment later to maint).
- (merge 2ffb7d13ee ds/t5510-brokequote later to maint).
- (merge 18337d406f ll/ls-files-tests-update later to maint).
- (merge 8cdab69d96 tk/rev-parse-doc-clarify-at-u later to maint).
+
+ * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved.
+ (merge ae25974de3 rs/mingw-tighten-mkstemp later to maint).
+
+ * Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
+ "git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
+ line completion to include them in its offerings.
+ (merge 07aed58017 mb/config-document-include later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.
+ (merge f5adaa5cc3 ds/doc-wo-whitelist later to maint).
+
+ * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
+ osx-keychain (in contrib/).
+ (merge f2fc531585 ld/osx-keychain-usage-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.
+ (merge b4f52f09ae ds/win-syslog-compiler-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
+ CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 4d35f74421 mb/p4-utf16-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge a700395eaf ma/t4200-update later to maint).
+ (merge ae436f283c ma/sparse-checkout-cone-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge a10f6e2bda sg/index-format-doc-update later to maint).
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