The 9th batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
index cf2da31b1a54a9ac3babfd0301029a87d502f513..6cee8bb8e89134adab2b20accce814c0cfd5e245 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
@@ -61,6 +61,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    simplification) by indenting them, preventing them from appearing
    falsely related to unrelated commits rendered immediately above them.
 
    simplification) by indenting them, preventing them from appearing
    falsely related to unrelated commits rendered immediately above them.
 

+ * Userdiff patterns for Swift have been added, with support for
+   Swift-specific constructs such as attributes, modifiers, failable
+   initializers, and generics.
+
+ * Configuration file locking has been updated to retry for a short
+   period, avoiding failures when multiple processes attempt to update
+   the configuration simultaneously.
+
+ * The 'remote-object-info' command has been added to 'git cat-file
+   --batch-command', allowing clients to request object metadata
+   (currently size) from a remote server via protocol v2 without
+   downloading the entire object.  Format placeholders are dynamically
+   filtered on the client based on server-advertised capabilities,
+   returning empty strings for inapplicable or unsupported fields.
+

 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 --------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 --------------------------------------------------------------


@@ -241,6 +256,30 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    implicit dependency on the global 'the_repository' variable in
    'copy.c'.
 
    implicit dependency on the global 'the_repository' variable in
    'copy.c'.
 

+ * The tempfile and lockfile APIs have been refactored to stop depending
+   on the 'the_repository' global variable, and their callers have been
+   updated to use the repository-aware variants.
+
+ * The 'trust_executable_bit' (coming from the 'core.filemode'
+   configuration) has been migrated into 'struct repo_config_values' to
+   tie it to a specific repository instance.
+
+ * The 'excludes_file' and various other global configuration variables
+   (including 'editor_program', 'pager_program', 'askpass_program', and
+   'push_default') have been migrated into the per-repository structure.
+
+ * The 'git stash push' command has been optimized to avoid unnecessary
+   sparse index expansion when pathspecs are wholly inside the
+   sparse-checkout cone.  Also, a potential out-of-bounds read in the
+   sparse-index expansion check helper pathspec_needs_expanded_index()
+   has been fixed by consistently using the parsed, prefixed path.
+
+ * The logic to write loose objects has been refactored and moved from
+   'object-file.c' to the loose backend source file 'odb/source-loose.c',
+   making the loose backend more self-contained.  This is achieved by
+   first refactoring force_object_loose() to use generic ODB write
+   interfaces instead of loose-backend internals.
+

 
 Fixes since v2.55
 -----------------
 
 Fixes since v2.55
 -----------------


@@ -401,3 +440,8 @@ Fixes since v2.55
    been corrected.  The 'Clone' implementation of 'CryptoHasher' now
    properly initializes the context before cloning, and its 'Drop'
    implementation now discards the context to prevent leaks.
    been corrected.  The 'Clone' implementation of 'CryptoHasher' now
    properly initializes the context before cloning, and its 'Drop'
    implementation now discards the context to prevent leaks.

+
+ * The object ID shortening and linking in the 'commitdiff' view of
+   'gitweb' has been corrected to work even when the index line carries
+   a trailing file mode.
+   (merge fda513d6fe tl/gitweb-shorten-hashes-with-modes later to maint).