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+Git 2.34 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since Git 2.33
+----------------------
+
+Backward compatibility notes
+
+ * The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
+ location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is
+ $(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)".
+
+ * The `ort` strategy is used instead of `recursive` as the default
+ merge strategy.
+
+ * The userdiff pattern for "java" language has been updated.
+
+ * "git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to
+ commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto;
+ give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of
+ skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep
+ duplicated changes.
+
+ * The advice message that "git cherry-pick" gives when it asks
+ conflicted replay of a commit to be resolved by the end user has
+ been updated.
+
+ * After "git clone --recurse-submodules", all submodules are cloned
+ but they are not by default recursed into by other commands. With
+ submodule.stickyRecursiveClone configuration set, submodule.recurse
+ configuration is set to true in a repository created by "clone"
+ with "--recurse-submodules" option.
+
+ * The logic for auto-correction of misspelt subcommands learned to go
+ interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set
+ to 'prompt'.
+
+ * "git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
+ possible backend.
+
+ * "git diff --submodule=diff" showed failure from run_command() when
+ trying to run diff inside a submodule, when the user manually
+ removes the submodule directory.
+
+ * "git bundle unbundle" learned to show progress display.
+
+ * In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored
+ files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the
+ entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is
+ especially useful when the sparse patterns change.
+
+ * Taking advantage of the CGI interface, http-backend has been
+ updated to enable protocol v2 automatically when the other side
+ asks for it.
+
+ * The credential-cache helper has been adjusted to Windows.
+
+ * The error in "git help no-such-git-command" is handled better.
+
+ * The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has
+ been updated.
+
+ * The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be
+ shown, which has been tightened up.
+
+ * "git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid
+ updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
+ the user specifies a "--sparse" option.
+
+ * "git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
+ bitmaps.
+
+ * "git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and
+ actual types of an object better.
+
+ * In addition to GnuPG, ssh public crypto can be used for object and
+ push-cert signing. Note that this feature cannot be used with
+ ssh-keygen from OpenSSH 8.7, whose support for it is broken. Avoid
+ using it unless you update to OpenSSH 8.8.
+
+ * "git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just
+ like "git grep string" does.
+
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * "git bisect" spawned "git show-branch" only to pretty-print the
+ title of the commit after checking out the next version to be
+ tested; this has been rewritten in C.
+
+ * "git add" can work better with the sparse index.
+
+ * Support for ancient versions of cURL library (pre 7.19.4) has been
+ dropped.
+
+ * A handful of tests that assumed implementation details of files
+ backend for refs have been cleaned up.
+
+ * trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what
+ context Git was invoked.
+
+ * Loading of ref tips to prepare for common ancestry negotiation in
+ "git fetch-pack" has been optimized by taking advantage of the
+ commit graph when available.
+
+ * Remind developers that the userdiff patterns should be kept simple
+ and permissive, assuming that the contents they apply are always
+ syntactically correct.
+
+ * The current implementation of GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is broken in
+ that checking for the lack of a prerequisite would not work. Avoid
+ the use of "if ! test_have_prereq X" in a test script.
+
+ * The revision traversal API has been optimized by taking advantage
+ of the commit-graph, when available, to determine if a commit is
+ reachable from any of the existing refs.
+
+ * "git fetch --quiet" optimization to avoid useless computation of
+ info that will never be displayed.
+
+ * Callers from older advice_config[] based API has been updated to
+ use the newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API.
+
+ * Teach "test_pause" and "debug" helpers to allow using the HOME and
+ TERM environment variables the user usually uses.
+
+ * "make INSTALL_STRIP=-s install" allows the installation step to use
+ "install -s" to strip the binaries as they get installed.
+
+ * Code that handles large number of refs in the "git fetch" code
+ path has been optimized.
+
+ * The reachability bitmap file used to be generated only for a single
+ pack, but now we've learned to generate bitmaps for history that
+ span across multiple packfiles.
+
+ * The code to make "git grep" recurse into submodules has been
+ updated to migrate away from the "add submodule's object store as
+ an alternate object store" mechanism (which is suboptimal).
+
+ * The tracing of process ancestry information has been enhanced.
+
+ * Reduce number of write(2) system calls while sending the
+ ref advertisement.
+
+ * Update the build procedure to use the "-pedantic" build when
+ DEVELOPER makefile macro is in effect.
+
+ * Large part of "git submodule add" gets rewritten in C.
+
+ * The run-command API has been updated so that the callers can easily
+ ask the file descriptors open for packfiles to be closed immediately
+ before spawning commands that may trigger auto-gc.
+
+ * An oddball OPTION_ARGUMENT feature has been removed from the
+ parse-options API.
+
+ * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
+ optimized.
+
+ * Remove external declaration of functions that no longer exist.
+
+ * "git multi-pack-index write --bitmap" learns to propagate the
+ hashcache from original bitmap to resulting bitmap.
+
+ * CI learns to run the leak sanitizer builds.
+
+ * "git grep --recurse-submodules" takes trees and blobs from the
+ submodule repository, but the textconv settings when processing a
+ blob from the submodule is not taken from the submodule repository.
+ A test is added to demonstrate the issue, without fixing it.
+
+ * Teach "git help -c" into helping the command line completion of
+ configuration variables.
+
+ * When "git cmd -h" shows more than one line of usage text (e.g.
+ the cmd subcommand may take sub-sub-command), parse-options API
+ learned to align these lines, even across i18n/l10n.
+
+ * Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that
+ haven't been modified.
+
+ * The code path to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files
+ has learned to release the mmaped memory holding the current
+ version of .midx before removing them from the disk, as some
+ platforms do not allow removal of a file that still has mapping.
+
+ * A new feature has been added to abort early in the test framework.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.33
+-----------------
+
+ * Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git
+ push" code path.
+
+ * "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
+ around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
+ but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
+ descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
+
+ * "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
+ binary hunks.
+
+ * "git range-diff" code clean-up.
+
+ * "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was
+ broken in v2.32.
+
+ * Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the
+ new version has a blocker bug for that architecture.
+
+ * Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
+ step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
+ skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
+ $GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
+
+ * mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc()
+ failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the
+ caller to be handled.
+
+ * "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result
+ when there are unmerged paths.
+
+ * The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty
+ even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given.
+
+ * "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
+ ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Build update for Apple clang.
+
+ * The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
+ forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
+ want-ref requests.
+
+ * The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing
+ a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test
+ area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
+ to limit the damage from such a stray test.
+
+ * Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded
+ discussion support, a threading related header in one message is
+ carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted
+ threading, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
+ is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
+
+ * Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
+
+ * The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
+ merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
+ without the content level merge. This fixes a regression caused by
+ recent "-3way first and fall back to direct application" change.
+
+ * The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has
+ been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing
+ the file out.
+
+ * "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
+ packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
+ correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
+ running Git.
+
+ * The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
+ create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
+ subsystem has been cleaned up.
+
+ * "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed,
+ which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock.
+
+ * When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
+ with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t.
+
+ * "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a
+ directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare
+ repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which
+ is corrected.
+
+ * "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code,
+ which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate
+ question if anybody is seriously using it, though).
+
+ * "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links.
+
+ * Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but
+ we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests.
+
+ * "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/
+ directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header
+ dependencies.
+
+ * Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line.
+
+ * A few kinds of changes "git status" can show were not documented.
+ (merge d2a534c515 ja/doc-status-types-and-copies later to maint).
+
+ * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
+ optimized.
+ (merge c90cfc225b rs/mergesort later to maint).
+
+ * An editor session launched during a Git operation (e.g. during 'git
+ commit') can leave the terminal in a funny state. The code path
+ has updated to save the terminal state before, and restore it
+ after, it spawns an editor.
+ (merge 3d411afabc cm/save-restore-terminal later to maint).
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch" with the "--batch-all-objects" option is
+ supposed to iterate over all the objects found in a repository, but
+ it used to translate these object names using the replace mechanism,
+ which defeats the point of enumerating all objects in the repository.
+ This has been corrected.
+ (merge bf972896d7 jk/cat-file-batch-all-wo-replace later to maint).
+
+ * Recent sparse-index work broke safety against attempts to add paths
+ with trailing slashes to the index, which has been corrected.
+ (merge c8ad9d04c6 rs/make-verify-path-really-verify-again later to maint).
+
+ * The "--color-lines" and "--color-by-age" options of "git blame"
+ have been missing, which are now documented.
+ (merge 8c32856133 bs/doc-blame-color-lines later to maint).
+
+ * The PATH used in CI job may be too wide and let incompatible dlls
+ to be grabbed, which can cause the build&test to fail. Tighten it.
+ (merge 7491ef6198 js/windows-ci-path-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid performance measurements from getting ruined by gc and other
+ housekeeping pauses interfering in the middle.
+ (merge be79131a53 rs/disable-gc-during-perf-tests later to maint).
+
+ * Stop "git add --dry-run" from creating new blob and tree objects.
+ (merge e578d0311d rs/add-dry-run-without-objects later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" gave duplicated error message when the object store
+ was unwritable, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 4ef91a2d79 ab/fix-commit-error-message-upon-unwritable-object-store later to maint).
+
+ * Recent sparse-index addition, namely any use of index_name_pos(),
+ can expand sparse index entries and breaks any code that walks
+ cache-tree or existing index entries. One such instance of such a
+ breakage has been corrected.
+
+ * The xxdiff difftool backend can exit with status 128, which the
+ difftool-helper that launches the backend takes as a significant
+ failure, when it is not significant at all. Work it around.
+ (merge 571f4348dd da/mergetools-special-case-xxdiff-exit-128 later to maint).
+
+ * Improve test framework around unwritable directories.
+ (merge 5d22e18965 ab/test-cleanly-recreate-trash-directory later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" client talking to an HTTP server did not diagnose the
+ lack of the final status report from the other side correctly,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge c5c3486f38 jk/http-push-status-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Update "git archive" documentation and give explicit mention on the
+ compression level for both zip and tar.gz format.
+ (merge c4b208c309 bs/archive-doc-compression-level later to maint).
+
+ * Drop "git sparse-checkout" from the list of common commands.
+ (merge 6a9a50a8af sg/sparse-index-not-that-common-a-command later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch -c/-m new old" was not described to copy config, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 8252ec300e jc/branch-copy-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Squelch over-eager warning message added during this cycle.
+
+ * Fix long-standing shell syntax error in the completion script.
+ (merge 46b0585286 re/completion-fix-test-equality later to maint).
+
+ * Teach "git commit-graph" command not to allow using replace objects
+ at all, as we do not use the commit-graph at runtime when we see
+ object replacement.
+ (merge 095d112f8c ab/ignore-replace-while-working-on-commit-graph later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --no-verify" did not affect the underlying "git merge".
+ (merge 47bfdfb3fd ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify later to maint).
+
+ * One CI task based on Fedora image noticed a not-quite-kosher
+ construct recently, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make
+ it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but
+ instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to
+ fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing
+ to diagnose as an error. This has been corrected.
+ (merge 361cb52383 jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date later to maint).
+
+ * The way Cygwin emulates a unix-domain socket, on top of which the
+ simple-ipc mechanism is implemented, can race with the program on
+ the other side that wants to use the socket, and briefly make it
+ appear as a regular file before lstat(2) starts reporting it as a
+ socket. We now have a workaround on the side that connects to a
+ unix domain socket.
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint).
+ (merge 8c6b4332b4 rs/close-pack-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 51b04c05b7 bs/difftool-msg-tweak later to maint).
+ (merge dd20e4a6db ab/make-compdb-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 6ffb990dc4 os/status-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge 100c2da2d3 rs/p3400-lose-tac later to maint).
+ (merge 76f3b69896 tb/aggregate-ignore-leading-whitespaces later to maint).
+ (merge 6e4fd8bfcd tz/doc-link-to-bundle-format-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f6c013dfa1 jc/doc-commit-header-continuation-line later to maint).
+ (merge ec9a37d69b ab/pkt-line-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 8650c6298c ab/fix-make-lint-docs later to maint).
+ (merge 1c720357ce ab/test-lib-diff-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 6b615dbece ks/submodule-add-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 203eb8381a jc/doc-format-patch-clarify-auto-base later to maint).
+ (merge 559664c792 ab/test-lib later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt
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+Git v2.34.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release is primarily to fix a handful of regressions in Git 2.34.
+
+Fixes since v2.34
+-----------------
+
+ * "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was
+ completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2
+ library in the latest release.
+
+ * "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us
+ should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't.
+
+ * An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused
+ GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with
+ a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted.
+
+ * An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted.
+
+ * SubmittingPatches document gained a syntactically incorrect mark-up,
+ which has been corrected.
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+Git 2.35 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since Git 2.34
+----------------------
+
+Backward compatibility warts
+
+ * "_" is now treated as any other URL-valid characters in an URL when
+ matching the per-URL configuration variable names.
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git status --porcelain=v2" now show the number of stash entries
+ with --show-stash like the normal output does.
+
+ * "git stash" learned the "--staged" option to stash away what has
+ been added to the index (and nothing else).
+
+ * "git var GIT_DEFAULT_BRANCH" is a way to see what name is used for
+ the newly created branch if "git init" is run.
+
+ * Various operating modes of "git reset" have been made to work
+ better with the sparse index.
+
+ * "git submodule deinit" for a submodule whose .git metadata
+ directory is embedded in its working tree refused to work, until
+ the submodule gets converted to use the "absorbed" form where the
+ metadata directory is stored in superproject, and a gitfile at the
+ top-level of the working tree of the submodule points at it. The
+ command is taught to convert such submodules to the absorbed form
+ as needed.
+
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) learns that the "--date"
+ option of commands from the "git log" family takes "human" and
+ "auto" as valid values.
+
+ * "Zealous diff3" style of merge conflict presentation has been added.
+
+ * The "git log --format=%(describe)" placeholder has been extended to
+ allow passing selected command-line options to the underlying "git
+ describe" command.
+
+ * "default" and "reset" have been added to our color palette.
+
+ * The cryptographic signing using ssh keys can specify literal keys
+ for keytypes whose name do not begin with the "ssh-" prefix by
+ using the "key::" prefix mechanism (e.g. "key::ecdsa-sha2-nistp256").
+
+ * "git fetch" without the "--update-head-ok" option ought to protect
+ a checked out branch from getting updated, to prevent the working
+ tree that checks it out to go out of sync. The code was written
+ before the use of "git worktree" got widespread, and only checked
+ the branch that was checked out in the current worktree, which has
+ been updated.
+
+ * "git name-rev" has been tweaked to give output that is shorter and
+ easier to understand.
+
+ * "git apply" has been taught to ignore a message without a patch
+ with the "--allow-empty" option. It also learned to honor the
+ "--quiet" option given from the command line.
+
+ * The "init" and "set" subcommands in "git sparse-checkout" have been
+ unified for a better user experience and performance.
+
+ * Many git commands that deal with working tree files try to remove a
+ directory that becomes empty (i.e. "git switch" from a branch that
+ has the directory to another branch that does not would attempt
+ remove all files in the directory and the directory itself). This
+ drops users into an unfamiliar situation if the command was run in
+ a subdirectory that becomes subject to removal due to the command.
+ The commands have been taught to keep an empty directory if it is
+ the directory they were started in to avoid surprising users.
+
+ * "git am" learns "--empty=(stop|drop|keep)" option to tweak what is
+ done to a piece of e-mail without a patch in it.
+
+ * The default merge message prepared by "git merge" records the name
+ of the current branch; the name can be overridden with a new option
+ to allow users to pretend a merge is made on a different branch.
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * The use of errno as a means to carry the nature of error in the ref
+ API implementation has been reworked and reduced.
+
+ * Teach and encourage first-time contributors to this project to
+ state the base commit when they submit their topic.
+
+ * The command line complation for "git send-email" options have been
+ tweaked to make it easier to keep it in sync with the command itself.
+
+ * Ensure that the sparseness of the in-core index matches the
+ index.sparse configuration specified by the repository immediately
+ after the on-disk index file is read.
+
+ * Code clean-up to eventually allow information on remotes defined
+ for an arbitrary repository to be read.
+
+ * Build optimization.
+
+ * Tighten code for testing pack-bitmap.
+
+ * Weather balloon to break people with compilers that do not support
+ C99.
+
+ * The "reftable" backend for the refs API, without integrating into
+ the refs subsystem, has been added.
+
+ * More tests are marked as leak-free.
+
+ * The test framework learns to list unsatisfied test prerequisites,
+ and optionally error out when prerequisites that are expected to be
+ satisfied are not.
+
+ * The default setting for trace2 event nesting was too low to cause
+ test failures, which is worked around by bumping it up in the test
+ framework.
+
+ * Drop support for TravisCI and update test workflows at GitHub.
+
+ * Many tests that used to need GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
+ mechanism to force "git" to use 'master' as the default name for
+ the initial branch no longer need it; the use of the mechanism from
+ them have been removed.
+
+ * Allow running our tests while disabling fsync.
+
+ * Document the parameters given to the reflog entry iterator callback
+ functions.
+ (merge e6e94f34b2 jc/reflog-iterator-callback-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The test helper for refs subsystem learned to write bogus and/or
+ nonexistent object name to refs to simulate error situations we
+ want to test Git in.
+
+ * "diff --histogram" optimization.
+
+ * Weather balloon to find compilers that do not grok variable
+ declaration in the for() loop.
+
+ * diff and blame commands have been taught to work better with sparse
+ index.
+
+ * The chainlint test script linter in the test suite has been updated.
+
+ * The DEVELOPER=yes build uses -std=gnu99 now.
+
+ * "git format-patch" uses a single rev_info instance and then exits.
+ Mark the structure with UNLEAK() macro to squelch leak sanitizer.
+
+ * New interface into the tmp-objdir API to help in-core use of the
+ quarantine feature.
+
+ * Broken &&-chains in the test scripts have been corrected.
+
+ * The RCS keyword substitution in "git p4" used to be done assuming
+ that the contents are UTF-8 text, which can trigger decoding
+ errors. We now treat the contents as a bytestring for robustness
+ and correctness.
+
+ * The conditions to choose different definitions of the FLEX_ARRAY
+ macro for vendor compilers has been simplified to make it easier to
+ maintain.
+
+ * Correctness and performance update to "diff --color-moved" feature.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" (the other side of "git fetch") used a 8kB buffer
+ but most of its payload came on 64kB "packets". The buffer size
+ has been enlarged so that such a packet fits.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.34
+-----------------
+
+ * "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was
+ completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2
+ library in the latest release.
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+
+ * "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us
+ should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't.
+
+ * An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused
+ GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with
+ a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted.
+
+ * An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted.
+
+ * Things like "git -c branch.sort=bogus branch new HEAD", i.e. the
+ operation modes of the "git branch" command that do not need the
+ sort key information, no longer errors out by seeing a bogus sort
+ key.
+ (merge 98e7ab6d42 jc/fix-ref-sorting-parse later to maint).
+
+ * The compatibility implementation for unsetenv(3) were written to
+ mimic ancient, non-POSIX, variant seen in an old glibc; it has been
+ changed to return an integer to match the more modern era.
+ (merge a38989bd5b jc/unsetenv-returns-an-int later to maint).
+
+ * The clean/smudge conversion code path has been prepared to better
+ work on platforms where ulong is narrower than size_t.
+ (merge 596b5e77c9 mc/clean-smudge-with-llp64 later to maint).
+
+ * Redact the path part of packfile URI that appears in the trace output.
+ (merge 0ba558ffb1 if/redact-packfile-uri later to maint).
+
+ * CI has been taught to catch some Unicode directional formatting
+ sequence that can be used in certain mischief.
+ (merge 0e7696c64d js/ci-no-directional-formatting later to maint).
+
+ * The "--date=format:<strftime>" gained a workaround for the lack of
+ system support for a non-local timezone to handle "%s" placeholder.
+ (merge 9b591b9403 jk/strbuf-addftime-seconds-since-epoch later to maint).
+
+ * The "merge" subcommand of "git jump" (in contrib/) silently ignored
+ pathspec and other parameters.
+ (merge 67ba13e5a4 jk/jump-merge-with-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * The code to decode the length of packed object size has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 34de5b8eac jt/pack-header-lshift-overflow later to maint).
+
+ * The advice message given by "git pull" when the user hasn't made a
+ choice between merge and rebase still said that the merge is the
+ default, which no longer is the case. This has been corrected.
+ (merge 71076d0edd ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch", when received a bad packfile, can fail with SIGPIPE.
+ This wasn't wrong per-se, but we now detect the situation and fail
+ in a more predictable way.
+ (merge 2a4aed42ec jk/fetch-pack-avoid-sigpipe-to-index-pack later to maint).
+
+ * The function to cull a child process and determine the exit status
+ had two separate code paths for normal callers and callers in a
+ signal handler, and the latter did not yield correct value when the
+ child has caught a signal. The handling of the exit status has
+ been unified for these two code paths. An existing test with
+ flakiness has also been corrected.
+ (merge 5263e22cba jk/t7006-sigpipe-tests-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When a non-existent program is given as the pager, we tried to
+ reuse an uninitialized child_process structure and crashed, which
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge f917f57f40 em/missing-pager later to maint).
+
+ * The single-key-input mode in "git add -p" had some code to handle
+ keys that generate a sequence of input via ReadKey(), which did not
+ handle end-of-file correctly, which has been fixed.
+ (merge fc8a8126df cb/add-p-single-key-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -x" added an unnecessary 'exec' instructions before
+ 'noop', which has been corrected.
+ (merge cc9dcdee61 en/rebase-x-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When the "git push" command is killed while the receiving end is
+ trying to report what happened to the ref update proposals, the
+ latter used to die, due to SIGPIPE. The code now ignores SIGPIPE
+ to increase our chances to run the post-receive hook after it
+ happens.
+ (merge d34182b9e3 rj/receive-pack-avoid-sigpipe-during-status-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * "git worktree add" showed "Preparing worktree" message to the
+ standard output stream, but when it failed, the message from die()
+ went to the standard error stream. Depending on the order the
+ stdio streams are flushed at the program end, this resulted in
+ confusing output. It has been corrected by sending all the chatty
+ messages to the standard error stream.
+ (merge b50252484f es/worktree-chatty-to-stderr later to maint).
+
+ * Coding guideline document has been updated to clarify what goes to
+ standard error in our system.
+ (merge e258eb4800 es/doc-stdout-vs-stderr later to maint).
+
+ * The sparse-index/sparse-checkout feature had a bug in its use of
+ the matching code to determine which path is in or outside the
+ sparse checkout patterns.
+ (merge 8c5de0d265 ds/sparse-deep-pattern-checkout-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -x" by mistake started exporting the GIT_DIR and
+ GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables when the command was rewritten
+ in C, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 434e0636db en/rebase-x-wo-git-dir-env later to maint).
+
+ * When "git log" implicitly enabled the "decoration" processing
+ without being explicitly asked with "--decorate" option, it failed
+ to read and honor the settings given by the "--decorate-refs"
+ option.
+
+ * "git fetch --set-upstream" did not check if there is a current
+ branch, leading to a segfault when it is run on a detached HEAD,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge 17baeaf82d ab/fetch-set-upstream-while-detached later to maint).
+
+ * Among some code paths that ask an yes/no question, only one place
+ gave a prompt that looked different from the others, which has been
+ updated to match what the others create.
+ (merge 0fc8ed154c km/help-prompt-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --invert-grep --author=<name>" used to exclude commits
+ written by the given author, but now "--invert-grep" only affects
+ the matches made by the "--grep=<pattern>" option.
+ (merge 794c000267 rs/log-invert-grep-with-headers later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep --perl-regexp" failed to match UTF-8 characters with
+ wildcard when the pattern consists only of ASCII letters, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 32e3e8bc55 rs/pcre2-utf later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge 74db416c9c cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f9b2b6684d ja/doc-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 7d1b866778 jc/fix-first-object-walk later to maint).
+ (merge 538ac74604 js/trace2-avoid-recursive-errors later to maint).
+ (merge 152923b132 jk/t5319-midx-corruption-test-deflake later to maint).
+ (merge 9081a421a6 ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 42c456ff81 rs/mergesort later to maint).
+ (merge ad506e6780 tl/midx-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge bf5b83fd8a hk/ci-checkwhitespace-commentfix later to maint).
+ (merge 49f1eb3b34 jk/refs-g11-workaround later to maint).
+ (merge 7d3fc7df70 jt/midx-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7b089120d9 hn/create-reflog-simplify later to maint).
+ (merge 9e12400da8 cb/mingw-gmtime-r later to maint).
+ (merge 0bf0de6cc7 tb/pack-revindex-on-disk-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 2c68f577fc ew/cbtree-remove-unused-and-broken-cb-unlink later to maint).
+ (merge eafd6e7e55 ab/die-with-bug later to maint).
+ (merge 91028f7659 jc/grep-patterntype-default-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 47ca93d071 ds/repack-fixlets later to maint).
+ (merge e6a9bc0c60 rs/t4202-invert-grep-test-fix later to maint).
+ (merge deb5407a42 gh/gpg-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 999bba3e0b rs/daemon-plug-leak later to maint).