Start Git 2.56 cycle

This time, do not forget to update GIT-VERSION-GEN to say 2.55.GIT

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

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+Git v2.56 Release Notes
+=======================
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+------------------------
+
+ * Advice shown by "git status" when the local branch is behind or has
+   diverged from its push branch has been updated to suggest "git pull
+   <remote> <branch>".
+
+ * The handling of promisor-remote protocol capability has been updated
+   to allow the other side to add to the list of promisor remotes via the
+   'promisor.acceptFromServerURL' configuration variable.
+
+ * The 'ort' merge backend has been hardened against corrupt trees by
+   ensuring it aborts under appropriate error conditions.
+
+ * The `fetch.followRemoteHEAD` configuration variable has been added to
+   provide a default for the per-remote `remote.<name>.followRemoteHEAD`
+   setting.
+
+ * "git log --follow" has been updated to better handle non-linear
+   history, in which the path being tracked gets renamed differently in
+   multiple history lines.
+
+ * The "git repo info" command has been taught new keys to output both
+   absolute and relative paths for "gitdir" and "commondir", supported by
+   a new path-formatting helper extracted from "git rev-parse".
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ * The refactoring of 'setup.c' has been continued to drop remaining
+   global state (`git_work_tree_cfg`, `is_bare_repository_cfg`), updating
+   `is_bare_repository()` to no longer implicitly rely on
+   `the_repository`.
+
+ * Project-specific configuration for b4 has been introduced, and the
+   documentation has been updated to recommend using it as a
+   streamlined method for submitting patches.
+
+ * The default format path of git cat-file --batch has been optimized
+   to use strbuf_add_oid_hex() and strbuf_add_uint() instead of
+   strbuf_addf(), yielding a noticeable speedup.
+
+ * Commands that list branches and tags (like git branch and git tag)
+   have been optimized to pass the namespace prefix when initializing
+   their ref iterator, avoiding a loose-ref scaling regression in
+   repositories with many unrelated loose references.
+
+ * The packed object source has been refactored into a proper struct
+   odb_source.
+
+ * The global configuration variables protect_hfs and protect_ntfs have
+   been migrated into struct repo_config_values to tie them to
+   per-repository configuration state.
+
+ * The trailer sections in SubmittingPatches have been updated to
+   encourage use of standard trailers.
+
+ * The documentation in SubmittingPatches has been updated to clarify how
+   patch contributors should respond to design and viability critiques,
+   and how the resolution of such critiques should be recorded in the
+   final commit messages.
+
+ * The pack-objects command has been updated to support reachability
+   bitmaps and delta-islands concurrently with the `--path-walk` option,
+   allowing faster packaging by falling back to path-walk when bitmaps
+   cannot fully satisfy the request.
+
+ * Documentation on community contribution guidelines has been updated to
+   encourage replying to review comments before rerolling, and to advise
+   a default limit of at most one reroll per day to give reviewers across
+   different time zones enough time to participate.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.55
+-----------------
+
+ * A regression in the error diagnosis code for invalid .git files has
+   been fixed, avoiding a potential NULL-pointer crash when reporting
+   that a .git file does not point to a valid repository.
+   (merge 54a441bcea jk/setup-gitfile-diag-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Support for hashing loose or packed objects larger than 4GB on Windows
+   and other LLP64 platforms has been improved by converting object header
+   buffers and data-handling functions from 'unsigned long' to 'size_t'.
+   (merge d99e13d0be po/hash-object-size-t later to maint).
+
+ * The display of the rebase todo list in "git status" has been
+   improved to correctly abbreviate object IDs for more commands and
+   avoid misinterpreting refs as object IDs.
+   (merge 6f34e5f9e3 pw/status-rebase-todo later to maint).
+
+ * Reference backend configuration has been updated to load lazily to
+   avoid recursive calls during repository initialization when 'onbranch'
+   configuration conditions are evaluated. This has also fixed a memory
+   leak and allowed the unused `chdir_notify_reparent()` machinery to be
+   dropped.
+   (merge d6522d01df ps/refs-onbranch-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * The connectivity check has been refactored to search for promisor
+   objects in a generic way using the object database interface,
+   rather than iterating packfiles directly. This allows connectivity
+   checks to work properly in repositories that do not use packfiles.
+   (merge 66ee9cb930 ps/connected-generic-promisor-checks later to maint).
+
+ * A test checking interactions between git rebase --quit and
+   autostash in t3420-rebase-autostash.sh has been corrected to use
+   test_path_is_missing instead of ! grep on a file that shouldn't
+   exist in the conflicted state.
+   (merge eaad121fef sg/t3420-do-not-grep-in-missing-file later to maint).

diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 6e4df991932910329a51cedace0fbe7858b45642..a72f090fe2b8d23cdc5504ae29f648adb73efb67 100755 (executable)
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DEF_VER=v2.55.0
+DEF_VER=v2.55.GIT
 
 LF='
 '

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