The 8th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 25, 2026 at 09:39 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc
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@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Misspelt proxy URL (e.g., httt://...) did not trigger any warning
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or failure, which has been corrected.
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+ * Document the fact that .git/info/exclude is shared across worktrees
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+ linked to the same repository.
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+ * The command line parser for "git diff" learned a few options take
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+ only non-negative integers.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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integration branches closer to their origin in the contributor PR
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builds.
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+ * "git merge-base" optimization.
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Fixes since v2.54
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time, which has been corrected.
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(merge 29364f1624 ps/maintenance-daemonize-lockfix later to maint).
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+ * Remove ineffective strbuf presizing that would have computed an
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+ allocation that would not have fit in the available memory anyway,
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+ or too small due to integer wraparound to cause immediate automatic
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+ growing.
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+ (merge a9ce8526dc jk/pretty-no-strbuf-presizing later to maint).
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+ * The HTTP walker misinterpreted the alternates file that gives an
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+ absolute path when the server URL does not have the final slash
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+ (i.e., "https://example.com" not "https://example.com/").
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+ (merge b92387cd55 jk/dumb-http-alternate-fix 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).