The second batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Git 2.32 Release Notes
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+Backward compatibility notes
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+ * ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", and ".mailmap" files that are
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+ symbolic links are ignored.
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Updates since v2.32
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-Backward incompatible and other important changes
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+UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and
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+ ".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the
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+ object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are
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+ used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the
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+ contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been
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+ corrected.
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-UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git stash show" learned to optionally show untracked part of the
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+ stash.
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+ * "git log --format='...'" learned "%(describe)" placeholder.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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+ * Rename detection rework continues.
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Fixes since v2.31
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which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe.
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(merge 93c3d297b5 tb/git-mv-icase-fix later to maint).
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+ * We had a code to diagnose and die cleanly when a required
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+ clean/smudge filter is missing, but an assert before that
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+ unnecessarily fired, hiding the end-user facing die() message.
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+ (merge 6fab35f748 mt/cleanly-die-upon-missing-required-filter later to maint).
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+ * Update C code that sets a few configuration variables when a remote
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+ is configured so that it spells configuration variable names in the
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+ canonical camelCase.
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+ (merge 0f1da600e6 ab/remote-write-config-in-camel-case later to maint).
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+ * A new configuration variable has been introduced to allow choosing
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+ which version of the generation number gets used in the
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+ commit-graph file.
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+ (merge 702110aac6 ds/commit-graph-generation-config later to maint).
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+ * Perf test update to work better in secondary worktrees.
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+ (merge 36e834abc1 jk/perf-in-worktrees later to maint).
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+ * Updates to memory allocation code around the use of pcre2 library.
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+ (merge c1760352e0 ab/grep-pcre2-allocfix later to maint).
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+ * "git -c core.bare=false clone --bare ..." would have segfaulted,
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+ which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 75555676ad bc/clone-bare-with-conflicting-config later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 486f4bd183 jc/calloc-fix later to maint).
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(merge 5f70859c15 jt/clone-unborn-head later to maint).
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(merge cfd409ed09 km/config-doc-typofix later to maint).
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(merge 8588aa8657 jk/slimmed-down later to maint).
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(merge 241b5d3ebe rs/xcalloc-takes-nelem-first later to maint).
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+ (merge f451960708 dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge 12604a8d0c sv/t9801-test-path-is-file-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge ea7e63921c jr/doc-ignore-typofix later to maint).
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+ (merge 23c781f173 ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 42efa1231a jk/filter-branch-sha256 later to maint).