The ninth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 3, 2022 at 13:11 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt
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@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git rebase -i" learns to update branches whose tip appear in the
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rebased range with "--update-refs" option.
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+ * "git ls-files" learns the "--format" option to tweak its output.
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+ * "git cat-file" learned an option to use the mailmap when showing
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+ commit and tag objects.
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+ * When "git merge" finds that it cannot perform a merge, it should
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+ restore the working tree to the state before the command was
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+ initiated, but in some corner cases it didn't.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -85,6 +94,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Omit fsync-related trace2 entries when their values are all zero.
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+ * The codepath to write multi-pack index has been taught to release a
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+ large chunk of memory that holds an array of objects in the packs,
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+ as soon as it is done with the array, to reduce memory consumption.
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+ * Add a level of redirection to array allocation API in xdiff part,
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+ to make it easier to share with the libgit2 project.
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Fixes since v2.37
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corrected.
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(merge 611c7785e8 mt/checkout-count-fix later to maint).
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+ * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a
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+ non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37.
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+ (merge 4447d4129d tk/untracked-cache-with-uall later to maint).
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+ * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information
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+ in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 9550f6c16a tb/commit-graph-genv2-upgrade-fix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge a700395eaf ma/t4200-update later to maint).
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(merge ae436f283c ma/sparse-checkout-cone-doc-fix later to maint).
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(merge a10f6e2bda sg/index-format-doc-update later to maint).
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(merge ce5f07983d mt/pkt-line-comment-tweak later to maint).
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+ (merge 1e11fab59c jc/string-list-cleanup later to maint).