The 4th batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed May 18, 2026 at 21:57 UTC 7bcaabddcf68bd0702697da5904c3b68c52f94cf
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@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
21 branch, but it gave only one chance to resolve conflicts. The command
22 was taught to create a stash to save the local changes.
23
24 + * A new builtin "git format-rev" is introduced for pretty formatting
25 + one revision expression per line or commit object names found in
26 + running text.
27 +
28
29 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
30 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -31,6 +35,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
35 * Rust support is enabled by default (but still allows opting out) in
36 some future version of Git.
37
38 + * Preparation of the xdiff/ codebase to work with Rust.
39 +
40
41 Fixes since v2.54
42 -----------------
@@ -76,6 +82,30 @@ Fixes since v2.54
82 disabling C11 language features, causing build failures..
83 (merge 0a6d29090c ps/clang-w-glibc-2.43-and-_Generic later to maint).
84
85 + * The 'http.emptyAuth=auto' configuration now correctly attempts
86 + Negotiate authentication before falling back to manual credentials.
87 + This allows seamless Kerberos ticket-based authentication without
88 + requiring users to explicitly set 'http.emptyAuth=true'.
89 + (merge 4919938d28 mc/http-emptyauth-negotiate-fix later to maint).
90 +
91 + * Ramifications of turning off commit-graph has been documented a bit
92 + more clearly.
93 + (merge 48c855bb8f kh/doc-commit-graph later to maint).
94 +
95 + * "git rebase --update-refs", when used with an rebase.instructionFormat
96 + with "%d" (describe) in it, tried to update local branch HEAD by
97 + mistake, which has been corrected.
98 + (merge 106b6885c7 ag/rebase-update-refs-limit-to-branches later to maint).
99 +
100 + * Tweak the way how sideband messages from remote are printed while
101 + we talk with a remote repository to avoid tickling terminal
102 + emulator glitches.
103 + (merge 31e8fcabd8 rs/sideband-clear-line-before-print later to maint).
104 +
105 + * The configuration variable submodule.fetchJobs was not read correctly,
106 + which has been corrected.
107 + (merge aa45a5902f sj/submodule-update-clone-config-fix later to maint).
108 +
109 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
110 (merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
111 (merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).
@@ -83,3 +113,5 @@ Fixes since v2.54
113 (merge ef85286e51 ss/t7004-unhide-git-failures later to maint).
114 (merge 7584d10bc2 mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format-docfix later to maint).
115 (merge 8547908eb3 pw/rename-to-get-current-worktree later to maint).
116 + (merge 890229b3f3 sg/t6112-unwanted-tilde-expansion-fix later to maint).
117 + (merge ab9753e7bc kh/doc-restore-double-underscores-fix later to maint).