current branch to a same-named branch on the remote, and detailing
the upstream requirements for centralized workflows.
+ * The documentation for "--word-diff" has been extended with a bit of
+ implementation detail of where these different words come from.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
* Encourage original authors to monitor the CI status.
+ * The `git log -L` implementation has been refactored to use the
+ standard diff output pipeline, enabling pickaxe and diff-filter to
+ work as expected. Additionally, metadata-only diff formats like
+ --raw and --name-only are now supported with -L.
+
+ * The loose object source has been refactored into a proper `struct
+ odb_source`.
+
Fixes since v2.54
-----------------
triggered a lazy fetch, which has been corrected.
(merge fa1468a1f7 th/promisor-quiet-per-repo later to maint).
+ * Correct use of sockaddr API in "git daemon".
+ (merge 422a5bf575 st/daemon-sockaddr-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * A memory leak in `fetch_and_setup_pack_index()` when verification of
+ the downloaded pack index fails has been plugged. Also an obsolete
+ `unlink()` call on parse failure has been cleaned up.
+
+ * In t3070-wildmatch, "via ls-files" test variants with patterns
+ containing backslash escapes are now skipped on Windows, avoiding 36
+ test failures caused by pathspec separator conversion.
+ (merge 8c84e6802c kk/wildmatch-windows-ls-files-prereq later to maint).
+
+ * A linker warning on macOS when building with Xcode 16.3 or newer has
+ been avoided by passing -fno-common to the compiler when a
+ sufficiently new linker is detected.
+ (merge 5cd4d0d850 hn/macos-linker-warning later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
(merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).