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+Git 2.26 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.25
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work
+   out of the box.
+
+ * gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
+   tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
+   trust level.
+
+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete
+   subcommands and arguments to "git worktree".
+
+ * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been
+   tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not
+   count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule.
+
+ * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
+   environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
+   option) is to disable the repository discovery.  This has been
+   placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
+   get confused.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented
+   with tabs.
+
+ * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function"
+   construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been
+   corrected.
+
+ * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in
+   sample templates.
+
+ * The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues.
+
+ * Improve error message generation for "git submodule add".
+
+ * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will
+   use SHA-256 continues.
+
+ * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code
+   to tentatively use in-core objects.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.25
+-----------------
+
+ * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
+   nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
+   configuration variable, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 5c4f55f1f6 hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting later to maint).
+
+ * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
+   system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
+   read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
+   empty tree from promisor remotes.
+   (merge 9c8a294a1a jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached later to maint).
+
+ * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
+   "git checkout" that was done only half-way.
+   (merge 1a7e454dd6 hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout later to maint).
+
+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
+   (merge 63ab08fb99 bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
+   single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
+   against corrupt index file.
+   (merge 573117dfa5 es/unpack-trees-oob-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
+   stateless RPC mechanism.
+   (merge 4d8cab95cc jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport later to maint).
+
+ * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
+   structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
+   has been corrected.
+   (merge e701bab3e9 nd/switch-and-restore later to maint).
+
+ * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the
+   same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count
+   the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 7210ca4ee5 ds/sparse-cone later to maint).
+
+ * Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge
+   commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a
+   recent update, which has been corrected.
+   (merge c958d3bd0a ds/graph-horizontal-edges later to maint).
+
+ * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
+   libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
+   of gcc and clang.
+   (merge f65d07fffa jk/asan-build-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C.
+   (merge 849e43cc18 js/builtin-add-i-cmds later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation.
+   (merge b40a50264a ds/refmap-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local
+   branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches
+   (i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding
+   local branch), which has been corrected.
+   (merge fa74180d08 am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity later to maint).
+
+ * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
+   performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
+   enumeration API has been corrected.
+   (merge 0cbb60574e en/fill-directory-fixes-more later to maint).
+
+ * A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules
+   inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot
+   error messages.  The command has been taught to enumerate
+   submodules that had errors at the end of the operation.
+   (merge 0222540827 es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend later to maint).
+
+ * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not
+   work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation
+   detail.
+   (merge b54128bb0b jt/t5616-robustify later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
+   .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint).
+
+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
+   (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
+   the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
+   the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did.  Now these
+   settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
+   (merge c56c48dd07 pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index later to maint).
+
+ * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
+   (merge 7378ec90e1 ms/doc-bundle-format later to maint).
+
+ * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched.
+   (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint).
+   (merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted later to maint).
+   (merge d0d0a357a1 am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests later to maint).
+   (merge f94f7bd00d am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases later to maint).
+   (merge e4837b4406 jk/test-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge a4ffbbbb99 rt/submodule-i18n later to maint).
+   (merge 856249c62a bc/actualmente later to maint).
+   (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint).
+   (merge 69e104d70e bc/author-committer-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 7a2dc95cbc bc/misconception-doc later to maint).
+   (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint).
+   (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint).
+   (merge eb31044ff7 jb/multi-pack-index-docfix later to maint).
+   (merge 04e5b3f0b4 km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path later to maint).
+   (merge e469afe158 ma/filter-branch-doc-caret later to maint).
+   (merge 395518cf7a jb/parse-options-message-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint).
+   (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint).