to the recent update to "git config" that adopted subcommand based
UI.
+ * The knobs to tweak how reftable files are written have been made
+ available as configuration variables.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
builtin/config.c done via the use of global variables.
* The pack bitmap code saw some clean-up to prepare for a follow-up topic.
- (merge 85f360fee5 tb/pack-bitmap-write-cleanups later to maint).
* Preliminary code clean-up for "git send-email".
- (merge c02dc38570 ds/send-email-per-message-block later to maint).
* The default "creation-factor" used by "git format-patch" has been
raised to make it more aggressively find matching commits.
- (merge c22d41d641 jc/format-patch-more-aggressive-range-diff later to maint).
+
+ * Before discovering the repository details, We used to assume SHA-1
+ as the "default" hash function, which has been corrected. Hopefully
+ this will smoke out codepaths that rely on such an unwarranted
+ assumptions.
+
+ * The project decision making policy has been documented.
+
+ * The strcmp-offset tests have been rewritten using the unit test
+ framework.
+
+ * "git add -p" learned to complain when an answer with more than one
+ letter is given to a prompt that expects a single letter answer.
Fixes since v2.45
the keychain.
(merge e1ab45b2da kn/osxkeychain-skip-idempotent-store later to maint).
+ * The chainlint script (invoked during "make test") did nothing when
+ it failed to detect the number of available CPUs. It now falls
+ back to 1 CPU to avoid the problem.
+ (merge 2e7e9205be es/chainlint-ncores-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Revert overly aggressive "layered defence" that went into 2.45.1
+ and friends, which broke "git-lfs", "git-annex", and other use
+ cases, so that we can rebuild necessary counterparts in the open.
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 4cf6e7bf5e jt/doc-submitting-rerolled-series later to maint).
(merge a5a4cb7b27 rs/diff-parseopts-cleanup later to maint).