A bit more before -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 7, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
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* git replay now supports replaying down to the root commit.
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+ * Handling of signed commits and tags in fast-import has been made more
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+ configurable.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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that discarded constness when they return a pointer into a const
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string to preserve constness.
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+ * A handful of inappropriate uses of the_repository have been
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+ rewritten to use the right repository structure instance in the
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+ read-cache.c codepath.
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+ * Internals of "git fsck" have been refactored to not depend on the
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+ global `the_repository` variable.
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+ * Reduce dependency on `the_repository` in add-patch.c file.
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+ * The way the "git log -L<range>:<file>" feature is bolted onto the
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+ log/diff machinery is being reworked a bit to make the feature
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+ compatible with more diff options, like -S/G.
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Fixes since v2.53
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refspec is a single-object refspec, which has been corrected.
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(merge 4e5dc601dd kj/refspec-parsing-outside-repository later to maint).
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+ * Fix a regression in writing the commit-graph where commits with dates
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+ exceeding 34 bits (beyond year 2514) could cause an underflow and
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+ crash Git during the generation data overflow chunk writing.
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+ * The value of a wrong pointer variable was referenced in an error
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+ message that reported that it shouldn't be NULL.
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+ (merge 753ecf4205 yc/path-walk-fix-error-reporting later to maint).
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+ * The check in "receive-pack" to prevent a checked out branch from
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+ getting updated via updateInstead mechanism has been corrected.
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+ * "git backfill" is capable of auto-detecting a sparsely checked out
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+ working tree, which was broken.
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+ (merge 339eba65a7 th/backfill-auto-detect-sparseness-fix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
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(merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).