The thirteenth batcn
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 29, 2025 at 11:31 UTC
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@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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allow the "partialCloneFilter" settings and the "token" value to be
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communicated from the server side.
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+ * Declare that "git init" that is not otherwise configured uses
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+ 'main' as the initial branch, not 'master', starting Git 3.0.
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+ * Keep giving hint about the default initial branch name for users
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+ who may be surprised after Git 3.0 switch-over.
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+ * The stash.index configuration variable can be set to make "git stash
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+ pop/apply" pretend that it was invoked with "--index".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* "git range-diff" learned a way to limit the memory consumed by
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O(N*N) cost matrix.
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+ * Some places in the code confused a variable that is *not* a boolean
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+ to enable color but is an enum that records what the user requested
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+ to do about color. A couple of bugs of this sort have been fixed,
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+ while the code has been cleaned up to prevent similar bugs in the
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+ future.
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Fixes since v2.51
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@@ -217,6 +232,33 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
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* "git subtree" (in contrib/) did not work correctly when splitting
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squashed subtrees, which has been improved.
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+ * Import a newer version of the clar unit testing framework.
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+ (merge 93dbb6b3c5 ps/clar-updates later to maint).
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+ * "git send-email --compose --reply-to=<address>" used to add
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+ duplicated Reply-To: header, which made mailservers unhappy. This
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge f448f65719 nb/send-email-no-dup-reply-to later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase -i" failed to clean-up the commit log message when the
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+ command commits the final one in a chain of "fixup" commands, which
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge 82a0a73e15 pw/rebase-i-cleanup-fix later to maint).
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+ * There are double frees and leaks around setup_revisions() API used
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+ in "git stash show", which has been fixed, and setup_revisions()
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+ API gained a wrapper to make it more ergonomic when using it with
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+ strvec-manged argc/argv pairs.
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+ (merge a04bc71725 jk/setup-revisions-freefix later to maint).
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+ * Deal more gracefully with directory / file conflicts when the files
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+ backend is used for ref storage, by failing only the ones that are
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+ involved in the conflict while allowing others.
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+ (merge 948b2ab0d8 kn/refs-files-case-insensitive later to maint).
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+ * "git last-modified" operating in non-recursive mode used to trigger
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+ a BUG(), which has been corrected.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint).
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(merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint).