The 9th batch

index cf2da31b1a..6cee8bb8e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc @@ -61,6 +61,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features simplification) by indenting them, preventing them from appearing falsely related to unrelated commits rendered immediately above them. + * Userdiff patterns for Swift have been added, with support for + Swift-specific constructs such as attributes, modifiers, failable + initializers, and generics. + + * Configuration file locking has been updated to retry for a short + period, avoiding failures when multiple processes attempt to update + the configuration simultaneously. + + * The 'remote-object-info' command has been added to 'git cat-file + --batch-command', allowing clients to request object metadata + (currently size) from a remote server via protocol v2 without + downloading the entire object. Format placeholders are dynamically + filtered on the client based on server-advertised capabilities, + returning empty strings for inapplicable or unsupported fields. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -241,6 +256,30 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. implicit dependency on the global 'the_repository' variable in 'copy.c'. + * The tempfile and lockfile APIs have been refactored to stop depending + on the 'the_repository' global variable, and their callers have been + updated to use the repository-aware variants. + + * The 'trust_executable_bit' (coming from the 'core.filemode' + configuration) has been migrated into 'struct repo_config_values' to + tie it to a specific repository instance. + + * The 'excludes_file' and various other global configuration variables + (including 'editor_program', 'pager_program', 'askpass_program', and + 'push_default') have been migrated into the per-repository structure. + + * The 'git stash push' command has been optimized to avoid unnecessary + sparse index expansion when pathspecs are wholly inside the + sparse-checkout cone. Also, a potential out-of-bounds read in the + sparse-index expansion check helper pathspec_needs_expanded_index() + has been fixed by consistently using the parsed, prefixed path. + + * The logic to write loose objects has been refactored and moved from + 'object-file.c' to the loose backend source file 'odb/source-loose.c', + making the loose backend more self-contained. This is achieved by + first refactoring force_object_loose() to use generic ODB write + interfaces instead of loose-backend internals. + Fixes since v2.55 ----------------- @@ -401,3 +440,8 @@ Fixes since v2.55 been corrected. The 'Clone' implementation of 'CryptoHasher' now properly initializes the context before cloning, and its 'Drop' implementation now discards the context to prevent leaks. + + * The object ID shortening and linking in the 'commitdiff' view of + 'gitweb' has been corrected to work even when the index line carries + a trailing file mode. + (merge fda513d6fe tl/gitweb-shorten-hashes-with-modes later to maint).