The 2nd batch for Git 2.56
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 13, 2026 at 08:27 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
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@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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absolute and relative paths for "gitdir" and "commondir", supported by
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a new path-formatting helper extracted from "git rev-parse".
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+ * When 'git push origin/main' or 'git branch origin main' is run, the
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+ command is now recognized as a potential typo, and advice has been
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+ added to offer a typo fix.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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a default limit of at most one reroll per day to give reviewers across
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different time zones enough time to participate.
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+ * The lazy priority queue optimization pattern (deferring actual removal
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+ in 'prio_queue_get()' to allow get+put fusion) has been folded
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+ directly into 'prio_queue' itself, speeding up commit traversal
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+ workflows and simplifying callers.
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+ * The 'reprepare()' callback for object database sources has been
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+ generalized into a 'prepare()' callback with an optional flush cache
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+ flag, and a new 'odb_prepare()' wrapper has been introduced to allow
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+ pre-opening object database sources.
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Fixes since v2.55
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test_path_is_missing instead of ! grep on a file that shouldn't
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exist in the conflicted state.
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(merge eaad121fef sg/t3420-do-not-grep-in-missing-file later to maint).
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+ * The GPG and SSH signature parsing code has been corrected to strip
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+ carriage return characters only when they immediately precede line
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+ feeds, instead of unconditionally stripping all carriage returns.
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+ (merge 5dea8b690b ad/gpg-strip-cr-before-lf later to maint).
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+ * A memory leak in the 'reftable_writer_new()' initialization function
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+ has been fixed by delaying the allocation of 'struct reftable_writer'
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+ until after input options are validated.
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+ (merge c6fb3b9c3e jk/reftable-leakfix later to maint).
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+ * A memory leak in the '--base' handling of 'git format-patch' has been
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+ plugged, and the leak reporting of the test suite when running under a
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+ TAP harness has been improved.
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+ (merge 973a0373ff jk/format-patch-leakfix later to maint).