Git 2.55-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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current branch to a same-named branch on the remote, and detailing
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the upstream requirements for centralized workflows.
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+ * The documentation for "--word-diff" has been extended with a bit of
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+ implementation detail of where these different words come from.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Encourage original authors to monitor the CI status.
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+ * The `git log -L` implementation has been refactored to use the
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+ standard diff output pipeline, enabling pickaxe and diff-filter to
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+ work as expected. Additionally, metadata-only diff formats like
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+ --raw and --name-only are now supported with -L.
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+ * The loose object source has been refactored into a proper `struct
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+ odb_source`.
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Fixes since v2.54
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triggered a lazy fetch, which has been corrected.
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(merge fa1468a1f7 th/promisor-quiet-per-repo later to maint).
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+ * Correct use of sockaddr API in "git daemon".
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+ (merge 422a5bf575 st/daemon-sockaddr-fixes later to maint).
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+ * A memory leak in `fetch_and_setup_pack_index()` when verification of
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+ the downloaded pack index fails has been plugged. Also an obsolete
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+ `unlink()` call on parse failure has been cleaned up.
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+ * In t3070-wildmatch, "via ls-files" test variants with patterns
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+ containing backslash escapes are now skipped on Windows, avoiding 36
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+ test failures caused by pathspec separator conversion.
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+ (merge 8c84e6802c kk/wildmatch-windows-ls-files-prereq later to maint).
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+ * A linker warning on macOS when building with Xcode 16.3 or newer has
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+ been avoided by passing -fno-common to the compiler when a
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+ sufficiently new linker is detected.
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+ (merge 5cd4d0d850 hn/macos-linker-warning later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
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(merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).
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