skip showing the hunk immediately after it has already been shown, and
an additional action to explicitly ask to reshow the current hunk.
- * "git pack-refs" learned the "--auto" option, which is a useful
- addition to be triggered from "git gc --auto".
+ * "git pack-refs" learned the "--auto" option, which defers the decision of
+ whether and how to pack to the ref backend. This is used by the reftable
+ backend to avoid repacking of an already-optimal ref database. The new mode
+ is triggered from "git gc --auto".
+
+ * "git add -u <pathspec>" and "git commit [-i] <pathspec>" did not
+ diagnose a pathspec element that did not match any files in certain
+ situations, unlike "git add <pathspec>" did.
+
+ * The userdiff patterns for C# has been updated.
+
+ * Git writes a "waiting for your editor" message on an incomplete
+ line after launching an editor, and then append another error
+ message on the same line if the editor errors out. It now clears
+ the "waiting for..." line before giving the error message.
+
+ * The filename used for rejected hunks "git apply --reject" creates
+ was limited to PATH_MAX, which has been lifted.
+
+ * When "git bisect" reports the commit it determined to be the
+ culprit, we used to show it in a format that does not honor common
+ UI tweaks, like log.date and log.decorate. The code has been
+ taught to use "git show" to follow more customizations.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been
specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair
- of <angle-brakets> emphasized.
+ of <angle-brackets> emphasized.
* "git --no-lazy-fetch cmd" allows to run "cmd" while disabling lazy
fetching of objects from the promisor remote, which may be handy
clean.requireForce has been simplified, together with the
documentation.
- * The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen
- some optimization.
-
* Uses of xwrite() helper have been audited and updated for better
error checking and simpler code.
out folks with compilers who have trouble compiling code that uses
the feature.
+ * Windows binary used to decide the use of unix-domain socket at
+ build time, but it learned to make the decision at runtime instead.
+
+ * The "shared repository" test in the t0610 reftable test failed
+ under restrictive umask setting (e.g. 007), which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Document and apply workaround for a buggy version of dash that
+ mishandles "local var=val" construct.
+
+ * The codepaths that reach date_mode_from_type() have been updated to
+ pass "struct date_mode" by value to make them thread safe.
+
+ * The strategy to compact multiple tables of reftables after many
+ operations accumulate many entries has been improved to avoid
+ accumulating too many tables uncollected.
+
+ * The code to iterate over reftable blocks has seen some optimization
+ to reduce memory allocation and deallocation.
+
+ * The way "git fast-import" handles paths described in its input has
+ been tightened up and more clearly documented.
+
+ * The cvsimport tests required that the platform understands
+ traditional timezone notations like CST6CDT, which has been
+ updated to work on those systems as long as they understand
+ POSIX notation with explicit tz transition dates.
+
+ * The code to format trailers have been cleaned up.
+
Fixes since v2.44
-----------------
(merge 5edd126720 jk/reflog-special-cases-fix later to maint).
* An error message from "git upload-pack", which responds to "git
- fetch" requests, had a trialing NUL in it, which has been
+ fetch" requests, had a trailing NUL in it, which has been
corrected.
(merge 3f4c7a0805 sg/upload-pack-error-message-fix later to maint).
This has been corrected.
(merge 199f44cb2e ps/remote-helper-repo-initialization-fix later to maint).
- * Various parts of upload-pack has been updated to bound the resource
+ * Various parts of upload-pack have been updated to bound the resource
consumption relative to the size of the repository to protect from
abusive clients.
(merge 6cd05e768b jk/upload-pack-bounded-resources later to maint).
variable that is no longer used.
(merge 72a8d3f027 pw/rebase-i-ignore-cherry-pick-help-environment later to maint).
- * The code to find the effective end of log message can fall into an
+ * The code to find the effective end of log messages can fall into an
endless loop, which has been corrected.
(merge 2541cba2d6 fs/find-end-of-log-message-fix later to maint).
- * Mark-ups used in the documentation has been improved for
+ * Mark-up used in the documentation has been improved for
consistency.
(merge 45d5ed3e50 ja/doc-markup-fixes later to maint).
HEAD state, gave the tracking information for the 'foo' branch,
which was pointless.
+ * "git apply" has been updated to lift the hardcoded pathname length
+ limit, which in turn allowed a mksnpath() function that is no
+ longer used.
+ (merge 708f7e0590 rs/apply-lift-path-length-limit later to maint).
+
+ * A file descriptor leak in an error codepath, used when "git apply
+ --reject" fails to create the *.rej file, has been corrected.
+ (merge 2b1f456adf rs/apply-reject-fd-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * A config parser callback function fell through instead of returning
+ after recognising and processing a variable, wasting cycles, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge a816ccd642 ds/fetch-config-parse-microfix later to maint).
+
+ * Fix was added to work around a regression in libcURL 8.7.0 (which has
+ already been fixed in their tip of the tree).
+ (merge 92a209bf24 jk/libcurl-8.7-regression-workaround later to maint).
+
+ * The variable that holds the value read from the core.excludefile
+ configuration variable used to leak, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 0e0fefb29f jc/unleak-core-excludesfile later to maint).
+
+ * vreportf(), which is used by error() and friends, has been taught
+ to give the error message printf-format string when its vsnprintf()
+ call fails, instead of showing nothing useful to identify the
+ nature of the error.
+ (merge c63adab961 rs/usage-fallback-to-show-message-format later to maint).
+
+ * Adjust to an upcoming changes to GNU make that breaks our Makefiles.
+ (merge 227b8fd902 tb/make-indent-conditional-with-non-spaces later to maint).
+
+ * Git 2.44 introduced a regression that makes the updated code to
+ barf in repositories with multi-pack index written by older
+ versions of Git, which has been corrected.
+
+ * When .git/rr-cache/ rerere database gets corrupted or rerere is fed to
+ work on a file with conflicted hunks resolved incompletely, the rerere
+ machinery got confused and segfaulted, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 167395bb47 mr/rerere-crash-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The "receive-pack" program (which responds to "git push") was not
+ converted to run "git maintenance --auto" when other codepaths that
+ used to run "git gc --auto" were updated, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 7bf3057d9c ps/run-auto-maintenance-in-receive-pack later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint).
(merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint).
(merge 7c43bdf07b rs/strbuf-expand-bad-format later to maint).
(merge 8b68b48d5c ds/typofix-core-config-doc later to maint).
(merge 39bb692152 rs/imap-send-use-xsnprintf later to maint).
+ (merge 8d320cec60 jc/t2104-style-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge b4454d5a7b pw/t3428-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 84a7c33a4b pf/commitish-committish later to maint).
+ (merge 8882ee9d68 la/mailmap-entry later to maint).
+ (merge 44bdba2fa6 rs/no-openssl-compilation-fix-on-macos later to maint).
+ (merge f412d72c19 yb/replay-doc-linkfix later to maint).
+ (merge 5da40be8d7 xx/rfc2822-date-format-in-doc later to maint).
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