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+Git 2.36 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since Git 2.35
+----------------------
+
+Backward compatibility warts
+
+ * "git name-rev --stdin" has been deprecated and issues a warning
+   when used; use "git name-rev --annotate-stdin" instead.
+
+
+Note to those who build from the source
+
+ *
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Assorted updates to "git cat-file", especially "-h".
+
+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learns to complete
+   arguments to give to "git sparse-checkout" command.
+
+ * "git log --remerge-diff" shows the difference from mechanical merge
+   result and the result that is actually recorded in a merge commit.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * "git apply" (ab)used the util pointer of the string-list to keep
+   track of how each symbolic link needs to be handled, which has been
+   simplified by using strset.
+
+ * Fix a hand-rolled alloca() imitation that may have violated
+   alignment requirement of data being sorted in compatibility
+   implementation of qsort_s() and stable qsort().
+
+ * Use the parse-options API in "git reflog" command.
+
+ * The conditional inclusion mechanism of configuration files using
+   "[includeIf <condition>]" learns to base its decision on the
+   URL of the remote repository the repository interacts with.
+   (merge 399b198489 jt/conditional-config-on-remote-url later to maint).
+
+ * "git name-rev --stdin" does not behave like usual "--stdin" at
+   all.  Start the process of renaming it to "--annotate-stdin".
+   (merge a2585719b3 jc/name-rev-stdin later to maint).
+
+
+Fixes since v2.35
+-----------------
+
+ * "rebase" and "stash" in secondary worktrees are broken in
+   Git 2.35.0, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git pull --rebase" ignored the rebase.autostash configuration
+   variable when the remote history is a descendant of our history,
+   which has been corrected.
+   (merge 3013d98d7a pb/pull-rebase-autostash-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git update-index --refresh" has been taught to deal better with
+   racy timestamps (just like "git status" already does).
+   (merge 2ede073fd2 ms/update-index-racy later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid tests that are run under GIT_TRACE2 set from failing
+   unnecessarily.
+   (merge 944d808e42 js/test-unset-trace2-parents later to maint).
+
+ * The merge-ort misbehaved when merge.renameLimit configuration is
+   set too low and failed to find all renames.
+   (merge 9ae39fef7f en/merge-ort-restart-optim-fix later to maint).
+
+ * We explain that revs come first before the pathspec among command
+   line arguments, but did not spell out that dashed options come
+   before other args, which has been corrected.
+   (merge c11f95010c tl/doc-cli-options-first later to maint).
+
+ * "git add -p" rewritten in C regressed hunk splitting in some cases,
+   which has been corrected.
+   (merge 7008ddc645 pw/add-p-hunk-split-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --negotiate-only" is an internal command used by "git
+   push" to figure out which part of our history is missing from the
+   other side.  It should never recurse into submodules even when
+   fetch.recursesubmodules configuration variable is set, nor it
+   should trigger "gc".  The code has been tightened up to ensure it
+   only does common ancestry discovery and nothing else.
+   (merge de4eaae63a gc/fetch-negotiate-only-early-return later to maint).
+
+ * The code path that verifies signatures made with ssh were made to
+   work better on a system with CRLF line endings.
+   (merge caeef01ea7 fs/ssh-signing-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * "git sparse-checkout init" failed to write into $GIT_DIR/info
+   directory when the repository was created without one, which has
+   been corrected to auto-create it.
+   (merge 7f44842ac1 jt/sparse-checkout-leading-dir-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Cloning from a repository that does not yet have any branches or
+   tags but has other refs resulted in a "remote transport reported
+   error", which has been corrected.
+   (merge dccea605b6 jt/clone-not-quite-empty later to maint).
+
+ * Mark in various places in the code that the sparse index and the
+   split index features are mutually incompatible.
+   (merge 451b66c533 js/sparse-vs-split-index later to maint).
+
+ * Update the logic to compute alignment requirement for our mem-pool.
+   (merge e38bcc66d8 jc/mem-pool-alignment later to maint).
+
+ * Pick a better random number generator and use it when we prepare
+   temporary filenames.
+   (merge 47efda967c bc/csprng-mktemps later to maint).
+
+ * Update the contributor-facing documents on proposed log messages.
+   (merge cdba0295b0 jc/doc-log-messages later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fetch --prune" failed to prune the refs it wanted to
+   prune, the command issued error messages but exited with exit
+   status 0, which has been corrected.
+   (merge c9e04d905e tg/fetch-prune-exit-code-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Problems identified by Coverity in the reftable code have been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 01033de49f hn/reftable-coverity-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * A bug that made multi-pack bitmap and the object order out-of-sync,
+   making the .midx data corrupt, has been fixed.
+   (merge f8b60cf99b tb/midx-bitmap-corruption-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The build procedure has been taught to notice older version of zlib
+   and enable our replacement uncompress2() automatically.
+   (merge 07564773c2 ab/auto-detect-zlib-compress2 later to maint).
+
+ * Interaction between fetch.negotiationAlgorithm and
+   feature.experimental configuration variables has been corrected.
+   (merge 714edc620c en/fetch-negotiation-default-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --diff-filter=aR" is now parsed correctly.
+   (merge 75408ca949 js/diff-filter-negation-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint).
+   (merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint).
+   (merge 727e6ea350 jh/p4-spawning-external-commands-cleanup later to maint).
+   (merge 0a6adc26e2 rs/grep-expr-cleanup later to maint).
+   (merge 4ed7dfa713 po/readme-mention-contributor-hints later to maint).
+   (merge 6046f7a91c en/plug-leaks-in-merge later to maint).
+   (merge 8c591dbfce bc/clarify-eol-attr later to maint).
+   (merge 518e15db74 rs/parse-options-lithelp-help later to maint).
+   (merge cbac0076ef gh/doc-typos later to maint).
+   (merge ce14de03db ab/no-errno-from-resolve-ref-unsafe later to maint).
+   (merge 2826ffad8c rc/negotiate-only-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 0f03f04c5c en/sparse-checkout-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 74f3390dde sy/diff-usage-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 45d0212a71 ll/doc-mktree-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge e9b272e4c1 js/no-more-legacy-stash later to maint).
+   (merge 6798b08e84 ab/do-not-hide-failures-in-git-dot-pm later to maint).