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--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and
actual types of an object better.
- * Use ssh public crypto for object and push-cert signing.
+ * 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.
@@ -182,7 +185,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that
haven't been modified.
- * The codepath to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files
+ * 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.
@@ -260,12 +263,8 @@ Fixes since v2.33
* The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
- * Doc update plus improved error reporting.
-
* Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
- * Regression fix.
-
* 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
@@ -405,9 +404,23 @@ Fixes since v2.33
(merge 47bfdfb3fd ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify later to maint).
* One CI task based on Fedora image noticed a not-quite-kosher
- consturct recently, which has been corrected.
+ construct recently, which has been corrected.
(merge 4b540cf913 vd/pthread-setspecific-g11-fix later to maint).
+ * "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).