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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Jun 15, 2026 at 07:41 UTC 700432b2ba22603a0bcb71475c9c333d17c9b0d1
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc
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@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
65 * The documentation for "--word-diff" has been extended with a bit of
66 implementation detail of where these different words come from.
67
68 + * "git config foo.bar=baz" is not likely to be a request to read the
69 + value of such a variable with '=' in its name; rather it is plausible
70 + that the user meant "git config set foo.bar baz". Give advice when
71 + giving an error message.
72 +
73
74 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
75 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -171,6 +176,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
176 * The loose object source has been refactored into a proper `struct
177 odb_source`.
178
179 + * Guidelines on how to write a cover letter for a multi-patch series
180 + have been added to SubmittingPatches, which also got a new marker
181 + to separate the section for typofixes.
182 +
183 + * The setup logic to discover and configure repositories has been
184 + refactored, and the initialization of the object database has been
185 + centralized.
186 +
187 + * Many core configuration variables have been migrated from global
188 + variables into 'repo_config_values' to tie them to a specific
189 + repository instance, avoiding cross-repository state leakage.
190 +
191
192 Fixes since v2.54
193 -----------------
@@ -322,6 +339,15 @@ Fixes since v2.54
339 sufficiently new linker is detected.
340 (merge 5cd4d0d850 hn/macos-linker-warning later to maint).
341
342 + * Documentation and tests have been added to clarify that Git's internal
343 + raw timestamp format requires a `@` prefix for values less than
344 + 100,000,000 to prevent ambiguity with other formats like YYYYMMDD.
345 + (merge 4018dc29ee ls/doc-raw-timestamp-prefix later to maint).
346 +
347 + * Wording used in "format-patch --subject-prefix" documentation
348 + has been improved.
349 + (merge 4a1eb9304a lo/doc-format-patch-subject-prefix later to maint).
350 +
351 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
352 (merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
353 (merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).
@@ -344,3 +370,5 @@ Fixes since v2.54
370 (merge 1740cc35d0 ed/check-connected-close-err-fd later to maint).
371 (merge f4d7eb3d1c sp/doc-range-diff-takes-notes later to maint).
372 (merge 83e7f3bd2b kh/free-commit-list later to maint).
373 + (merge d1b72b29e9 am/doc-tech-hash-typofix later to maint).
374 + (merge 014c454799 ak/typofixes later to maint).