The 4th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 18, 2026 at 21:57 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc
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branch, but it gave only one chance to resolve conflicts. The command
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was taught to create a stash to save the local changes.
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+ * A new builtin "git format-rev" is introduced for pretty formatting
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+ one revision expression per line or commit object names found in
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+ running text.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Rust support is enabled by default (but still allows opting out) in
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some future version of Git.
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+ * Preparation of the xdiff/ codebase to work with Rust.
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Fixes since v2.54
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disabling C11 language features, causing build failures..
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(merge 0a6d29090c ps/clang-w-glibc-2.43-and-_Generic later to maint).
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+ * The 'http.emptyAuth=auto' configuration now correctly attempts
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+ Negotiate authentication before falling back to manual credentials.
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+ This allows seamless Kerberos ticket-based authentication without
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+ requiring users to explicitly set 'http.emptyAuth=true'.
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+ (merge 4919938d28 mc/http-emptyauth-negotiate-fix later to maint).
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+ * Ramifications of turning off commit-graph has been documented a bit
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+ more clearly.
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+ (merge 48c855bb8f kh/doc-commit-graph later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase --update-refs", when used with an rebase.instructionFormat
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+ with "%d" (describe) in it, tried to update local branch HEAD by
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+ mistake, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 106b6885c7 ag/rebase-update-refs-limit-to-branches later to maint).
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+ * Tweak the way how sideband messages from remote are printed while
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+ we talk with a remote repository to avoid tickling terminal
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+ emulator glitches.
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+ (merge 31e8fcabd8 rs/sideband-clear-line-before-print later to maint).
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+ * The configuration variable submodule.fetchJobs was not read correctly,
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+ which has been corrected.
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+ (merge aa45a5902f sj/submodule-update-clone-config-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).
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(merge ef85286e51 ss/t7004-unhide-git-failures later to maint).
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(merge 7584d10bc2 mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format-docfix later to maint).
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(merge 8547908eb3 pw/rename-to-get-current-worktree later to maint).
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+ (merge 890229b3f3 sg/t6112-unwanted-tilde-expansion-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge ab9753e7bc kh/doc-restore-double-underscores-fix later to maint).