From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 01:44:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: The seventeenth batch, just before -rc0 X-Git-Tag: v2.51.0-rc0~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0753259271b76f6e53b3b170b4bc08cca793bca;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git The seventeenth batch, just before -rc0 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc index 5e254541b5..78b4918533 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git pull" learned to pay attention to pull.autostash configuration variable, which overrides rebase/merge.autostash. + * "git for-each-ref" learns "--start-after" option to help + applications that want to page its output. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -125,6 +128,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The reftable unit tests are now ported to the "clar" unit testing framework. + * Redefine where the multi-pack-index sits in the object subsystem, + which recently was restructured to allow multiple backends that + support a single object source that belongs to one repository. A + midx does span mulitple "object sources". + Fixes since v2.50 ----------------- @@ -252,6 +260,15 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. core.commentstring is set to 'auto'. (merge 92b7c7c9f5 ac/auto-comment-char-fix later to maint). + * "git rebase -i" with bogus rebase.instructionFormat configuration + failed to produce the todo file after recording the state files, + leading to confused "git status"; this has been corrected. + (merge ade14bffd7 ow/rebase-verify-insn-fmt-before-initializing-state later to maint). + + * A few file descriptors left unclosed upon program completion in a + few test helper programs are now closed. + (merge 0f1b33815b hl/test-helper-fd-close later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint). (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).