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+Git 2.25.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.25
+-----------------
+
+ * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
+ nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
+ configuration variable, which has been corrected.
+
+ * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
+ system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
+ read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
+ empty tree from promisor remotes.
+
+ * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
+ single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
+ against corrupt index file.
+
+ * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
+ "git checkout" that was done only half-way.
+
+ * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
+ stateless RPC mechanism.
+
+ * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
+ structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
+ has been corrected.
+
+ * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the
+ same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count
+ the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
+ libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
+ of gcc and clang.
+
+ * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation.
+
+ * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
+ performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
+ enumeration API has been corrected.
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
+ the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
+ the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
+ settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
+
+ * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
+
+ * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been
+ squelched.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.
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+Git 2.26 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.25
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work
+ out of the box.
+
+ * gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
+ tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
+ trust level.
+
+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete
+ subcommands and arguments to "git worktree".
+
+ * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been
+ tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not
+ count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule.
+
+ * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
+ environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
+ option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been
+ placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
+ get confused.
+
+ * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it
+ nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API.
+
+ * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to
+ avoid races.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented
+ with tabs.
+
+ * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function"
+ construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in
+ sample templates.
+
+ * The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues.
+
+ * Improve error message generation for "git submodule add".
+
+ * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will
+ use SHA-256 continues.
+
+ * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code
+ to tentatively use in-core objects.
+
+ * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack
+ to generate its result has been improved.
+
+ * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one.
+
+ * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects
+ (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object
+ layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the
+ tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected.
+
+ * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to
+ name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages
+ without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable.
+
+ * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when
+ fetching into it.
+
+ * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around
+ the cone mode, have been cleaned up.
+
+ * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the
+ diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before;
+ this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to
+ the end user.
+
+ * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to
+ work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its
+ callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat).
+
+
+Fixes since v2.25
+-----------------
+
+ * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
+ nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
+ configuration variable, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 5c4f55f1f6 hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting later to maint).
+
+ * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
+ system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
+ read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
+ empty tree from promisor remotes.
+ (merge 9c8a294a1a jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached later to maint).
+
+ * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
+ "git checkout" that was done only half-way.
+ (merge 1a7e454dd6 hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout later to maint).
+
+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
+ (merge 63ab08fb99 bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
+ single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
+ against corrupt index file.
+ (merge 573117dfa5 es/unpack-trees-oob-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
+ stateless RPC mechanism.
+ (merge 4d8cab95cc jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport later to maint).
+
+ * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
+ structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge e701bab3e9 nd/switch-and-restore later to maint).
+
+ * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the
+ same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count
+ the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 7210ca4ee5 ds/sparse-cone later to maint).
+
+ * Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge
+ commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a
+ recent update, which has been corrected.
+ (merge c958d3bd0a ds/graph-horizontal-edges later to maint).
+
+ * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
+ libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
+ of gcc and clang.
+ (merge f65d07fffa jk/asan-build-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C.
+ (merge 849e43cc18 js/builtin-add-i-cmds later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation.
+ (merge b40a50264a ds/refmap-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local
+ branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches
+ (i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding
+ local branch), which has been corrected.
+ (merge fa74180d08 am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity later to maint).
+
+ * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
+ performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
+ enumeration API has been corrected.
+ (merge 0cbb60574e en/fill-directory-fixes-more later to maint).
+
+ * A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules
+ inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot
+ error messages. The command has been taught to enumerate
+ submodules that had errors at the end of the operation.
+ (merge 0222540827 es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend later to maint).
+
+ * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not
+ work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation
+ detail.
+ (merge b54128bb0b jt/t5616-robustify later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
+ .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint).
+
+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
+ (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
+ the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
+ the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
+ settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
+ (merge c56c48dd07 pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index later to maint).
+
+ * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
+ (merge 7378ec90e1 ms/doc-bundle-format later to maint).
+
+ * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched.
+ (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with
+ their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it
+ goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity
+ in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were
+ not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 26027625dd js/rebase-i-with-colliding-hash later to maint).
+
+ * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when
+ "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure.
+ (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint).
+
+ * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet
+ populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a
+ part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint).
+
+ * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had
+ an off-by-one bug, which has been killed.
+ (merge dbc27477ff jh/notes-fanout-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that
+ records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the
+ code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an
+ input, but it is an input error.
+ (merge a21781011f jk/index-pack-dupfix later to maint).
+
+ * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more
+ robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same
+ thing.
+ (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint).
+ (merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted later to maint).
+ (merge d0d0a357a1 am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests later to maint).
+ (merge f94f7bd00d am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases later to maint).
+ (merge e4837b4406 jk/test-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge a4ffbbbb99 rt/submodule-i18n later to maint).
+ (merge 856249c62a bc/actualmente later to maint).
+ (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint).
+ (merge 69e104d70e bc/author-committer-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 7a2dc95cbc bc/misconception-doc later to maint).
+ (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint).
+ (merge eb31044ff7 jb/multi-pack-index-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge 04e5b3f0b4 km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path later to maint).
+ (merge e469afe158 ma/filter-branch-doc-caret later to maint).
+ (merge 395518cf7a jb/parse-options-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint).
+ (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint).