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@@ -19,6 +19,23 @@ 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.
+
+ * "git log" and friends learned an option --exclude-first-parent-only
+ to propagate UNINTERESTING bit down only along the first-parent
+ chain, just like --first-parent option shows commits that lack the
+ UNINTERESTING bit only along the first-parent chain.
+
+ * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to
+ complete all Git subcommands, including the ones that are normally
+ hidden, when GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL_COMMANDS is used.
+
+ * "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -41,6 +58,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
all. Start the process of renaming it to "--annotate-stdin".
(merge a2585719b3 jc/name-rev-stdin later to maint).
+ * "git update-index", "git checkout-index", and "git clean" are
+ taught to work better with the sparse checkout feature.
+
+ * Use an internal call to reset_head() helper function instead of
+ spawning "git checkout" in "rebase", and update code paths that are
+ involved in the change.
+
Fixes since v2.35
-----------------
@@ -103,6 +127,73 @@ Fixes since v2.35
* 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).
+
+ * When "git subtree" wants to create a merge, it used "git merge" and
+ let it be affected by end-user's "merge.ff" configuration, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 9158a3564a tk/subtree-merge-not-ff-only later to maint).
+
+ * Unlike "git apply", "git patch-id" did not handle patches with
+ hunks that has only 1 line in either preimage or postimage, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 757e75c81e jz/patch-id-hunk-header-parsing-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "receive-pack" checks if it will do any ref updates (various
+ conditions could reject a push) before received objects are taken
+ out of the temporary directory used for quarantine purposes, so
+ that a push that is known-to-fail will not leave crufts that a
+ future "gc" needs to clean up.
+ (merge 5407764069 cb/clear-quarantine-early-on-all-ref-update-errors later to maint).
+
+ * Because a deletion of ref would need to remove it from both the
+ loose ref store and the packed ref store, a delete-ref operation
+ that logically removes one ref may end up invoking ref-transaction
+ hook twice, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 2ed1b64ebd ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs later to maint).
+
+ * When there is no object to write .bitmap file for, "git
+ multi-pack-index" triggered an error, instead of just skipping,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge eb57277ba3 tb/midx-no-bitmap-for-no-objects later to maint).
+
+ * "git cmd -h" outside a repository should error out cleanly for many
+ commands, but instead it hit a BUG(), which has been corrected.
+ (merge 87ad07d735 js/short-help-outside-repo-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "working tree" and "per-worktree ref" were in glossary, but
+ "worktree" itself wasn't, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 2df5387ed0 jc/glossary-worktree 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).
@@ -110,3 +201,17 @@ Fixes since v2.35
(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).
+ (merge 9325285df4 po/doc-check-ignore-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge cd26cd6c7c sy/modernize-t-lib-read-tree-m-3way later to maint).
+ (merge d17294a05e ab/hash-object-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge b8403129d3 jd/t0015-modernize later to maint).