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@@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs
configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one".
+ * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -" pays attention
+ to "-3" only for the patch that caused the original invocation
+ to stop.
+
+ * When linked worktree is used, simultaneous "notes merge" instances
+ for the same ref in refs/notes/* are prevented from stomping on
+ each other.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned a new option --smtp-auth to limit the SMTP
+ AUTH mechanisms to be used to a subset of what the system library
+ supports.
+
+ * A new configuration variable http.sslVersion can be used to specify
+ what specific version of SSL/TLS to use to make a connection.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -110,6 +125,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of
active results below 4. Their uses have been reduced.
+ * The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API.
+
+ * To prepare for allowing a different "ref" backend to be plugged in
+ to the system, update_ref()/delete_ref() have been taught about
+ ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will
+ always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -212,6 +234,35 @@ notes for details).
in C.
(merge 22d6857 mm/pull-upload-pack later to maint).
+ * When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno
+ leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and
+ then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses
+ O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the
+ packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the
+ object does not exist in that packfile to the caller.
+ (merge dff6f28 cb/open-noatime-clear-errno later to maint).
+
+ * The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to
+ the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while
+ calling die().
+ (merge f4c3edc jk/long-error-messages later to maint).
+
+ * strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary
+ strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated.
+ (merge 3ebbd00 jh/strbuf-read-use-read-in-full later to maint).
+
+ * We rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl but this reimplements
+ in Bourne shell.
+ (merge 82aec45 sg/help-group later to maint).
+
+ * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
+ a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
+ (merge 73f9145 dt/untracked-subdir later to maint).
+
+ * "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a single-liner log message that
+ has a colon as the end of existing trailer.
+ (merge 6262fe9 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix later to maint).
+
* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
(merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint).
(merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint).
@@ -221,3 +272,10 @@ notes for details).
(merge 4a6ada3 ad/bisect-cleanup later to maint).
(merge da4c5ad ta/docfix-index-format-tech later to maint).
(merge ae25fd3 sb/check-return-from-read-ref later to maint).
+ (merge b3325df nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint).
+ (merge 7aa9b9b sg/wt-status-header-inclusion later to maint).
+ (merge f04c690 as/docfix-reflog-expire-unreachable later to maint).
+ (merge 1269847 sg/t3020-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 8b54c23 jc/calloc-pathspec later to maint).
+ (merge a6926b8 po/po-readme later to maint).
+ (merge 54d160e ss/fix-config-fd-leak later to maint).