The fourteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 17, 2024 at 15:53 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.46.0.txt
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@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The promisor.quiet configuration knob can be set to true to make
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lazy fetching from promisor remotes silent.
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+ * The inter/range-diff output has been moved to the end of the patch
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+ when format-patch adds it to a single patch, instead of writing it
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+ before the patch text, to be consistent with what is done for a
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+ cover letter for a multi-patch series.
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+ * A new command has been added to migrate a repository that uses the
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+ files backend for its ref storage to use the reftable backend, with
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+ limitations.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -134,6 +143,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Many memory leaks in the sparse-checkout code paths have been
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plugged.
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+ * "make check-docs" noticed problems and reported to its output but
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+ failed to signal its findings with its exit status, which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ * Building with "-Werror -Wwrite-strings" is now supported.
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Fixes since v2.45
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* An overly large ".gitignore" files are now rejected silently.
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(merge e7c3d1ddba jk/cap-exclude-file-size later to maint).
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+ * Upon expiration event, the credential subsystem forgot to clear
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+ in-core authentication material other than password (whose support
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+ was added recently), which has been corrected.
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+ * Fix for an embarrassing typo that prevented Python2 tests from running
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+ anywhere.
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+ (merge df651330ab ps/ci-fix-detection-of-ubuntu-20 later to maint).
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+ * Varargs functions that are unannotated as printf-like or execl-like
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+ have been annotated as such.
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+ (merge 99c7de732e jc/varargs-attributes later to maint).
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+ * "git am" has a safety feature to prevent it from starting a new
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+ session when there already is a session going. It reliably
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+ triggers when a mbox is given on the command line, but it has to
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+ rely on the tty-ness of the standard input. Add an explicit way to
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+ opt out of this safety with a command line option.
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+ (merge 62c71ace44 jk/am-retry later to maint).
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+ * A leak in "git imap-send" that somehow escapes LSan has been
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+ plugged.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge a5a4cb7b27 rs/diff-parseopts-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 55702c543e fa/p4-error later to maint).