The 8th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 27, 2026 at 14:19 UTC
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@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git history" history rewriting (experimental) command has been
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added.
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-
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* "git replay" is taught to drop commits that become empty (not the
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ones that are empty in the original).
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@@ -32,6 +31,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Command line completion (in contrib/) update for
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"stash import/export".
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+ * "git repo info" learns "--keys" action to list known keys.
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+ * Extend the alias configuration syntax to allow aliases using
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+ characters outside ASCII alphanumeric (plus '-').
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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already do on Linux and Windows. Also adjust the way Windows
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implementation reports this information to match the other two.
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+ * A handful of places used refs_for_each_ref_in() API incorrectly,
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+ which has been corrected.
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+ * Some tests assumed "iconv" is available without honoring ICONV
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+ prerequisite, which has been corrected.
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Fixes since v2.53
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been fixed.
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(merge f4eff7116d ps/pack-concat-wo-backfill later to maint).
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+ * "git switch <name>", in an attempt to create a local branch <name>
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+ after a remote tracking branch of the same name gave an advise
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+ message to disambiguate using "git checkout", which has been
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+ updated to use "git switch".
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+ (merge 12fee11f21 jc/checkout-switch-restore later to maint).
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+ * It does not make much sense to apply the "incomplete-line"
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+ whitespace rule to symbolic links, whose contents almost always
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+ lack the final newline. "git apply" and "git diff" are now taught
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+ to exclude them for a change to symbolic links.
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+ (merge 6a41481c6d jc/whitespace-incomplete-line later to maint).
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+ * "git format-patch --from=<me>" did not honor the command line
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+ option when writing out the cover letter, which has been corrected.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
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(merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).
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(merge 2668b6bdc4 jc/doc-rerere-update later to maint).
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(merge 2f99f50f2d jc/doc-cg-c-comment later to maint).
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(merge a454cdca42 kh/doc-am-format-sendmail later to maint).
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+ (merge 8b0061b5c5 jk/ref-filter-lrstrip-optim later to maint).
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+ (merge 5133837392 ps/ci-gitlab-msvc-updates later to maint).
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+ (merge 143e84958c db/doc-fetch-jobs-auto later to maint).
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+ (merge 0678e01f02 ap/use-test-seq-f-more later to maint).