From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 22:49:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Start Git 2.56 cycle X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f85a7e662054a7b0d9070e432508831afa214b47;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git 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 --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fda10a014f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +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 + ". + + * 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..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 6e4df99193..a72f090fe2 100755 --- 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=' ' diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes index 159e44a949..752580e693 120000 --- a/RelNotes +++ b/RelNotes @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc \ No newline at end of file +Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc \ No newline at end of file