A bit more topics for -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.50.0.adoc
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check, which can be useful when the repository arranges to ensure
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connectivity by some other means.
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+ * "git notes --help" documentation updates.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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do not pass the leak checker tests, as they should no longer be
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needed.
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+ * When a stale .midx file refers to .pack files that no longer exist,
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+ we ended up checking for these non-existent files repeatedly, which
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+ has been optimized by memoizing the non-existence.
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Fixes since v2.49
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expand sparse-index while working.
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(merge ecf9ba20e3 ds/sparse-apply-add-p later to maint).
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+ * Avoid adding directory path to a sparse-index tree entries to the
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+ name-hash, since they would bloat the hashtable without anybody
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+ querying for them. This was done already for a single threaded
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+ part of the code, but now the multi-threaded code also does the
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+ same.
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+ (merge 2e60aabc75 am/sparse-index-name-hash-fix later to maint).
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+ * Recent versions of Perl started warning against "! A =~ /pattern/"
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+ which does not negate the result of the matching. As it turns out
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+ that the problematic function is not even called, it was removed.
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+ (merge 67cae845d2 op/cvsserver-perl-warning later to maint).
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+ * "git apply --index/--cached" when applying a deletion patch in
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+ reverse failed to give the mode bits of the path "removed" by the
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+ patch to the file it creates, which has been corrected.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
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(merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).