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@@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
put the header line back into a single logical line. The
underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
+ * "gitweb" can spawn "highlight" to show blob contents with
+ (programming) language-specific syntax highlighting, but only
+ when the language is known. "highlight" can however be told
+ to make the guess itself by giving it "--force" option, which
+ has been enabled.
+
+ * "git gui" l10n to Portuguese.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -103,6 +111,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have
become faster.
+ * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has
+ been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -289,6 +300,33 @@ notes for details).
default set of configuration variables to correct this.
(merge d49028e6e7 jc/worktree-config later to maint).
+ * "git init" tried to record core.worktree in the repository's
+ 'config' file when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable was set and
+ it was different from where GIT_DIR appears as ".git" at its top,
+ but the logic was faulty when .git is a "gitdir:" file that points
+ at the real place, causing trouble in working trees that are
+ managed by "git worktree". This has been corrected.
+
+ * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in
+ validating what they are reading is a proper object file and
+ sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has
+ been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting.
+ (merge d21f842690 jc/verify-loose-object-header later to maint).
+
+ * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git
+ merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some
+ time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This
+ is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation.
+ (merge ff65e796f0 rs/git-gui-use-modern-git-merge-syntax later to maint).
+
+ * An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the
+ human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted
+ correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail.
+ (merge f357e5de31 kd/mailinfo-quoted-string later to maint).
+
+ * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does.
+ (merge 04be69478f pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).
(merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).
@@ -296,3 +334,5 @@ notes for details).
(merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint).
(merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint).
(merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint).
+ (merge 45ccef87b3 rs/copy-array later to maint).
+ (merge 8201688ecd dt/mailinfo later to maint).