The twelfth batch
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 21, 2025 at 08:45 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc
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@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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coming from using a variable with a wrong type to capture the
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parsed values.
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+ * Flipping the default hash function to SHA-256 at Git 3.0 boundary
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+ is planned.
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Fixes since v2.50
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@@ -178,6 +181,20 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
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now removes refs/heads/foo/ if the directory is otherwise not used.
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(merge a3a7f20516 ps/refs-files-remove-empty-parent later to maint).
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+ * "pack-objects" has been taught to avoid pointing into objects in
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+ cruft packs from midx.
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+ * "git remote" now detects remote names that overlap with each other
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+ (e.g., remote nickname "outer" and "outer/inner" are used at the
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+ same time), as it will lead to overlapping remote-tracking
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+ branches.
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+ (merge a5a727c448 jk/remote-avoid-overlapping-names later to maint).
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+ * The gpg.program configuration variable, which names a pathname to
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+ the (custom) GPG compatible program, can now be spelled with ~tilde
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+ expansion.
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+ (merge 7d275cd5c0 jb/gpg-program-variable-is-a-pathname later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
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(merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).
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(merge 953049eed8 ts/merge-orig-head-doc-fix later to maint).
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(merge 0c83bbc704 rj/freebsd-sysinfo-build-fix later to maint).
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(merge ad7780b38f ps/doc-pack-refs-auto-with-files-backend-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge f4fa8a3687 rh/doc-glob-pathspec-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge b27be108c8 ja/doc-git-log-markup later to maint).