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@@ -99,6 +99,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The approxidate parser learns to parse seconds with fraction and
ignore fractional part.
+ * The userdiff patterns for Markdown documents have been added.
+
+ * The sparse-checkout patterns have been forbidden from excluding all
+ paths, leaving an empty working tree, for a long time. This
+ limitation has been lifted.
+
+ * "git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents
+ out of "HEAD", instead of erring out.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -372,6 +381,45 @@ Fixes since v2.26
correctly honor the core.sharedRepository settings and some were
left read-write.
+ * In error messages that "git switch" mentions its option to create a
+ new branch, "-b/-B" options were shown, where "-c/-C" options
+ should be, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 7c16ef7577 dl/switch-c-option-in-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * With the recent tightening of the code that is used to parse
+ various parts of a URL for use in the credential subsystem, a
+ hand-edited credential-store file causes the credential helper to
+ die, which is a bit too harsh to the users. Demote the error
+ behaviour to just ignore and keep using well-formed lines instead.
+ (merge c03859a665 cb/credential-store-ignore-bogus-lines later to maint).
+
+ * The samples in the credential documentation has been updated to
+ make it clear that we depict what would appear in the .git/config
+ file, by adding appropriate quotes as needed..
+ (merge 177681a07e jk/credential-sample-update later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch" and other "for-each-ref" variants accepted multiple
+ --sort=<key> options in the increasing order of precedence, but it
+ had a few breakages around "--ignore-case" handling, and tie-breaking
+ with the refname, which have been fixed.
+ (merge 7c5045fc18 jk/for-each-ref-multi-key-sort-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The coding guideline for shell scripts instructed to refer to a
+ variable with dollar-sign inside arithmetic expansion to work
+ around a bug in old versions of dash, which is a thing of the past.
+ Now we are not forbidden from writing $((var+1)).
+ (merge 32b5fe7f0e jk/arith-expansion-coding-guidelines later to maint).
+
+ * The <stdlib.h> header on NetBSD brings in its own definition of
+ hmac() function (eek), which conflicts with our own and unrelated
+ function with the same name. Our function has been renamed to work
+ around the issue.
+ (merge 3013118eb8 cb/avoid-colliding-with-netbsd-hmac later to maint).
+
+ * The basic test did not honor $TEST_SHELL_PATH setting, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 0555e4af58 cb/t0000-use-the-configured-shell later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint).
(merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint).
@@ -399,3 +447,4 @@ Fixes since v2.26
(merge 4d9378bfad eb/gitweb-more-trailers later to maint).
(merge bdccbf7047 mt/doc-worktree-ref later to maint).
(merge ce9baf234f dl/push-recurse-submodules-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 4153274052 bc/doc-credential-helper-value later to maint).