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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
index 114f147fd6..91e6ae9887 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Git 2.22 Release Notes
Updates since v2.21
-------------------
+Backward compatibility note
+
+ * The filter specification "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" used to
+ create a lazy/partial clone has been removed. Using a blob that is
+ part of the project as sparse specification is still supported with
+ the "--filter=sparse:oid=<blob>" option.
+
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of
@@ -99,6 +106,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by
default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking.
+ * "git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" have been
+ taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge
+ base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B"
+ detaches HEAD at that commit.
+
+ * Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations
+ of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as
+ fallback settings of each other in a sensible order.
+
+ * The "--dir-diff" mode of "git difftool" is not useful in "--no-index"
+ mode; they are now explicitly marked as mutually incompatible.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -169,7 +188,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
been optimized out.
* Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function
- declarlation.
+ declaration.
* The script to aggregate perf result unconditionally depended on
libjson-perl even though it did not have to, which has been
@@ -178,6 +197,27 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The internal implementation of "git rebase -i" has been updated to
avoid forking a separate "rebase--interactive" process.
+ * Allow DEP and ASLR for Windows build to for security hardening.
+
+ * Performance test framework has been broken and measured the version
+ of Git that happens to be on $PATH, not the specified one to
+ measure, for a while, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Optionally "make coccicheck" can feed multiple source files to
+ spatch, gaining performance while spending more memory.
+
+ * Attempt to use an abbreviated option in "git clone --recurs" is
+ responded by a request to disambiguate between --recursive and
+ --recurse-submodules, which is bad because these two are synonyms.
+ The parse-options API has been extended to define such synonyms
+ more easily and not produce an unnecessary failure.
+
+ * A pair of private functions in http.c that had names similar to
+ fread/fwrite did not return the number of elements, which was found
+ to be confusing.
+
+ * Update collision-detecting SHA-1 code to build properly on HP-UX.
+
Fixes since v2.21
-----------------
@@ -237,7 +277,7 @@ Fixes since v2.21
* On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX),
the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after
detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal,
- which led to a flakey test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during
+ which led to a flaky test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during
the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we
check the return status from our write(2)s).
(merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint).
@@ -325,7 +365,7 @@ Fixes since v2.21
(merge b5a0bd694c nd/read-tree-reset-doc later to maint).
* Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be
- update_server_info() funtion.
+ update_server_info() function.
(merge b3223761c8 jk/server-info-rabbit-hole later to maint).
* The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been
@@ -417,7 +457,7 @@ Fixes since v2.21
* When given a tag that points at a commit-ish, "git replace --graft"
failed to peel the tag before writing a replace ref, which did not
make sense because the old graft mechanism the feature wants to
- mimick only allowed to replace one commit object with another.
+ mimic only allowed to replace one commit object with another.
This has been fixed.
(merge ee521ec4cb cc/replace-graft-peel-tags later to maint).
@@ -467,13 +507,48 @@ Fixes since v2.21
conflicts are resolved in working tree *.h files but before the
resolved results are added to the index. This has been corrected.
- * "git chery-pick" (and "revert" that shares the same runtime engine)
+ * "git cherry-pick" (and "revert" that shares the same runtime engine)
that deals with multiple commits got confused when the final step
gets stopped with a conflict and the user concluded the sequence
with "git commit". Attempt to fix it by cleaning up the state
files used by these commands in such a situation.
(merge 4a72486de9 pw/clean-sequencer-state-upon-final-commit later to maint).
+ * On a filesystem like HFS+, the names of the refs stored as filesystem
+ entities may become different from what the end-user expects, just
+ like files in the working tree get "renamed". Work around the
+ mismatch by paying attention to the core.precomposeUnicode
+ configuration.
+ (merge 8e712ef6fc en/unicode-in-refnames later to maint).
+
+ * The code to generate the multi-pack idx file was not prepared to
+ see too many packfiles and ran out of open file descriptor, which
+ has been corrected.
+
+ * To run tests for Git SVN, our scripts for CI used to install the
+ git-svn package (in the hope that it would bring in the right
+ dependencies). This has been updated to install the more direct
+ dependency, namely, libsvn-perl.
+ (merge db864306cf sg/ci-libsvn-perl later to maint).
+
+ * "git cvsexportcommit" running on msys did not expect cvsnt showed
+ "cvs status" output with CRLF line endings.
+
+ * The fsmonitor interface got out of sync after the in-core index
+ file gets discarded, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 398a3b0899 js/fsmonitor-refresh-after-discarding-index later to maint).
+
+ * "git status" did not know that the "label" instruction in the
+ todo-list "rebase -i -r" uses should not be shown as a hex object
+ name.
+
+ * A prerequisite check in the test suite to see if a working jgit is
+ available was made more robust.
+ (merge abd0f28983 tz/test-lib-check-working-jgit later to maint).
+
+ * The codepath to parse :<path> that obtains the object name for an
+ indexed object has been made more robust.
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint).
(merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint).
@@ -510,3 +585,13 @@ Fixes since v2.21
(merge d8083e4180 km/t3000-retitle later to maint).
(merge 9e4cbccbd7 tz/git-svn-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge da9ca955a7 jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 6804ba3a58 cw/diff-highlight later to maint).
+ (merge 1a8787144d nd/submodule-helper-incomplete-line-fix later to maint).
+ (merge d9ef573837 jk/apache-lsan later to maint).
+ (merge c871fbee2b js/t6500-use-windows-pid-on-mingw later to maint).
+ (merge ce4c7bfc90 bl/t4253-exit-code-from-format-patch later to maint).
+ (merge 397a46db78 js/t5580-unc-alternate-test later to maint).
+ (merge d4907720a2 cm/notes-comment-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9dde06de13 cb/http-push-null-in-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 4c785c0edc js/rebase-config-bitfix later to maint).
+ (merge 8e9fe16c87 es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53e8234e52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+Git 2.23 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.22
+-------------------
+
+Backward compatibility note
+
+ * The "--base" option of "format-patch" computed the patch-ids for
+ prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to
+ compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable".
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * The "git fast-export/import" pair has been taught to handle commits
+ with log messages in encoding other than UTF-8 better.
+
+ * In recent versions of Git, per-worktree refs are exposed in
+ refs/worktrees/<wtname>/ hierarchy, which means that worktree names
+ must be a valid refname component. The code now sanitizes the names
+ given to worktrees, to make sure these refs are well-formed.
+
+ * "git merge" learned "--quit" option that cleans up the in-progress
+ merge while leaving the working tree and the index still in a mess.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learns a configuration to set the default for
+ its --notes=<ref> option.
+
+ * The code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
+ interpreted as a commit-ish has been improved.
+
+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
+ to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
+ and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
+ remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
+ "--remote-submodules" option.
+
+ * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
+ boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
+ or less equivalent.
+
+ * "git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
+ people).
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Update supporting parts of "git rebase" to remove code that should
+ no longer be used.
+
+ * Developer support to emulate unsatisfied prerequisites in tests to
+ ensure that the remainer of the tests still succeeds when tests
+ with prerequisites are skipped.
+
+ * "git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the
+ same contents.
+
+ * The way of specifying the path to find dynamic libraries at runtime
+ has been simplified. The old default to pass -R/path/to/dir has been
+ replaced with the new default to pass -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/dir,
+ which is the more recent GCC uses. Those who need to build with an
+ old GCC can still use "CC_LD_DYNPATH=-R"
+
+ * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works
+ on a range (A..B).
+
+ * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
+ developers has been added.
+
+
+
+Fixes since v2.22
+-----------------
+
+ * A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>"
+ ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in,
+ but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge e1df7fe43f nd/init-relative-template-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to
+ the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 105df73e71 nd/corrupt-worktrees later to maint).
+
+ * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote
+ backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting
+ closed, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 3203566a71 mh/import-transport-fd-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A "merge -c" instruction during "git rebase --rebase-merges" should
+ give the user a chance to edit the log message, even when there is
+ otherwise no need to create a new merge and replace the existing
+ one (i.e. fast-forward instead), but did not. Which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Code cleanup and futureproof.
+ (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint).
+
+ * More parameter validation.
+ (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint).
+
+ * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
+ output, which has been corrected.
+ (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint).
+
+ * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
+ value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
+ use, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint).
+
+ * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
+ if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
+ the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
+ in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
+ index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
+ by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
+ when both options are given.
+ (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint).
+
+ * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
+ the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint).
+
+ * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
+ (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint).
+
+ * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
+ "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
+ broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
+ (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
+ from in the local repository and in the published repository are
+ different.
+ (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint).
+
+ * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
+ recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
+ hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
+ to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
+ (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint).
+ (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint).