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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Backward compatibility warts
* "git name-rev --stdin" has been deprecated and issues a warning
when used; use "git name-rev --annotate-stdin" instead.
+ * "git clone --filter=... --recurse-submodules" only makes the
+ top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This
+ behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules.
+
Note to those who build from the source
@@ -36,6 +40,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
+ * A not-so-common mistake is to write a script to feed "git bisect
+ run" without making it executable, in which case all tests will
+ exit with 126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked
+ as good. Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early.
+
+ * When "index-pack" dies due to incoming data exceeding the maximum
+ allowed input size, include the value of the limit in the error
+ message.
+
+ * The error message given by "git switch HEAD~4" has been clarified
+ to suggest the "--detach" option that is required.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -65,6 +81,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
spawning "git checkout" in "rebase", and update code paths that are
involved in the change.
+ * Messages "ort" merge backend prepares while dealing with conflicted
+ paths were unnecessarily confusing since it did not differentiate
+ inner merges and outer merges.
+
+ * Small modernization of the rerere-train script (in contrib/).
+
+ * Use designated initializers we started using in mid 2017 in more
+ parts of the codebase that are relatively quiescent.
+
Fixes since v2.35
-----------------
@@ -194,6 +219,40 @@ Fixes since v2.35
"worktree" itself wasn't, which has been corrected.
(merge 2df5387ed0 jc/glossary-worktree later to maint).
+ * L10n support for a few error messages.
+ (merge 3d3c23b3a7 bs/forbid-i18n-of-protocol-token-in-fetch-pack later to maint).
+
+ * Test modernization.
+ (merge d4fe066e4b sy/t0001-use-path-is-helper later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --graph --graph" used to leak a graph structure, and there
+ was no way to countermand "--graph" that appear earlier on the
+ command line. A "--no-graph" option has been added and resource
+ leakage has been plugged.
+
+ * Error output given in response to an ambiguous object name has been
+ improved.
+ (merge 3a73c1dfaf ab/ambiguous-object-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git sparse-checkout" wants to work with per-worktree configuration,
+ but did not work well in a worktree attached to a bare repository.
+ (merge 3ce1138272 ds/sparse-checkout-requires-per-worktree-config later to maint).
+
+ * Setting core.untrackedCache to true failed to add the untracked
+ cache extension to the index.
+
+ * Workaround we have for versions of PCRE2 before their version 10.36
+ were in effect only for their versions newer than 10.36 by mistake,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge 97169fc361 rs/pcre-invalid-utf8-fix-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Document Taylor as a new member of Git PLC at SFC. Welcome.
+ (merge e8d56ca863 tb/coc-plc-update later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout -b branch/with/multi/level/name && git stash" only
+ recorded the last level component of the branch name, which has
+ been corrected.
+
* 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).
@@ -215,3 +274,6 @@ Fixes since v2.35
(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).
+ (merge 332acc248d ds/mailmap later to maint).
+ (merge 04bf052eef ab/grep-patterntype later to maint).
+ (merge 6ee36364eb ab/diff-free-more later to maint).