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@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not
affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is.
+ * "git worktree" gained a "repair" subcommand to help users recover
+ after moving the worktrees or repository manually without telling
+ Git. Also, "git init --separate-git-dir" no longer corrupts
+ administrative data related to linked worktrees.
+
+ * The "--format=" option to the "for-each-ref" command and friends
+ learned a few more tricks, e.g. the ":short" suffix that applies to
+ "objectname" now also can be used for "parent", "tree", etc.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -128,6 +137,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo"
form, which have been corrected.
+ * When a packfile is removed by "git repack", multi-pack-index gets
+ cleared; the code was taught to do so less aggressively by first
+ checking if the midx actually refers to a pack that no longer
+ exists.
+
+ * Internal API clean-up to handle two options "diff-index" and "log"
+ have, which happen to share the same short form, more sensibly.
+
Fixes since v2.28
-----------------
@@ -286,6 +303,16 @@ Fixes since v2.28
been freed, which has been fixed.
(merge 6479ea4a8a jk/xrealloc-avoid-use-after-free later to maint).
+ * "git status" has trouble showing where it came from by interpreting
+ reflog entries that recordcertain events, e.g. "checkout @{u}", and
+ gives a hard/fatal error. Even though it inherently is impossible
+ to give a correct answer because the reflog entries lose some
+ information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was
+ on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even
+ if the record were available, the relationship between branches may
+ have changed), at least hide the error to allow "status" show its
+ output.
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint).
(merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint).
@@ -311,3 +338,4 @@ Fixes since v2.28
(merge ee22a29215 so/pretty-abbrev-doc later to maint).
(merge 3100fd5588 jc/post-checkout-doc later to maint).
(merge 17bae89476 pb/doc-external-diff-env later to maint).
+ (merge 27ed6ccc12 jk/worktree-check-clean-leakfix later to maint).