Git 2.37-rc0

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jun 13, 2022 at 15:42 UTC 8168d5e9c23ed44ae3d604f392320d66556453c9
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.0.txt
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@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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55 * Update the doctype written in gitweb output to xhtml5.
56
57 + * The "fetch.credentialsInUrl" configuration variable controls what
58 + happens when a URL with embedded login credential is used.
59 +
60
61 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
62
@@ -262,6 +265,38 @@ Fixes since v2.36
265 parsing.
266 (merge f1dfbd9ee0 gc/zero-length-branch-config-fix later to maint).
267
268 + * "git -c diff.submodule=log range-diff" did not show anything for
269 + submodules that changed in the ranges being compared, and
270 + "git -c diff.submodule=diff range-diff" did not work correctly.
271 + Fix this by including the "--submodule=short" output
272 + unconditionally to be compared.
273 +
274 + * In Git 2.36 we revamped the way how hooks are invoked. One change
275 + that is end-user visible is that the output of a hook is no longer
276 + directly connected to the standard output of "git" that spawns the
277 + hook, which was noticed post release. This is getting corrected.
278 + (merge a082345372 ab/hooks-regression-fix later to maint).
279 +
280 + * Updating the graft information invalidates the list of parents of
281 + in-core commit objects that used to be in the graft file.
282 +
283 + * "git show-ref --heads" (and "--tags") still iterated over all the
284 + refs only to discard refs outside the specified area, which has
285 + been corrected.
286 + (merge c0c9d35e27 tb/show-ref-optim later to maint).
287 +
288 + * Remove redundant copying (with index v3 and older) or possible
289 + over-reading beyond end of mmapped memory (with index v4) has been
290 + corrected.
291 + (merge 6d858341d2 zh/read-cache-copy-name-entry-fix later to maint).
292 +
293 + * Sample watchman interface hook sometimes failed to produce
294 + correctly formatted JSON message, which has been corrected.
295 + (merge 134047b500 sn/fsmonitor-missing-clock later to maint).
296 +
297 + * Use-after-free (with another forget-to-free) fix.
298 + (merge 323822c72b ab/remote-free-fix later to maint).
299 +
300 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
301 (merge e6b2582da3 cm/reftable-0-length-memset later to maint).
302 (merge 0b75e5bf22 ab/misc-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -283,3 +318,5 @@ Fixes since v2.36
318 (merge 2acf4cf001 js/ci-gcc-12-fixes later to maint).
319 (merge 05e280c0a6 jc/http-clear-finished-pointer later to maint).
320 (merge 8c49d704ef fh/transport-push-leakfix later to maint).
321 + (merge 1d232d38bd tl/ls-tree-oid-only later to maint).
322 + (merge db7961e6a6 gc/document-config-worktree-scope later to maint).