The seventh batch
Taylor Blau committed
Nov 1, 2024 at 12:59 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.48.0.txt
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@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git rebase --rebase-merges" now uses branch names as labels when
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able.
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+ * Describe the policy to introduce breaking changes.
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+ * Teach 'git notes add' and 'git notes append' a new '-e' flag,
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+ instructing them to open the note in $GIT_EDITOR before saving.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -44,6 +49,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The ref-filter machinery learns to recognize and avoid cases where
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sorting would be redundant.
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+ * Various platform compatibility fixes split out of the larger effort
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+ to use Meson as the primary build tool.
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+ * Treat ECONNABORTED the same as ECONNRESET in 'git credential-cache'
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+ to work around a possible Cygwin regression. This resolves a race
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+ condition caused by changes in Cygwin's handling of socket
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+ closures, allowing the client to exit cleanly when encountering
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+ ECONNABORTED.
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+ * Demonstrate an assertion failure in 'git mv'.
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+ * Documentation update to clarify that 'uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant'
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+ implies both 'allowTipSHA1InWant' and 'allowReachableSHA1InWant'.
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+ * Replace various calls to atoi() with strtol_i() and strtoul_ui(),
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+ and add improved error handling.
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+ * Documentation updates to 'git-update-ref(1)'.
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Fixes since v2.47
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@@ -80,6 +104,16 @@ Fixes since v2.47
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of a repository.
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(merge b33001645e wm/shortlog-hash later to maint).
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+ * Fix 'git grep' regression on macOS by disabling lookahead when
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+ encountering invalid UTF-8 byte sequences.
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+ (merge ce025ae4f6 rs/grep-lookahead later to maint).
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+ * The dumb-http code regressed when the result of re-indexing a pack
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+ yielded an *.idx file that differs in content from the *.idx file
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+ it downloaded from the remote. This has been corrected by no longer
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+ relying on: the *.idx file we got from the remote.
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+ (merge 863f2459a2 jk/dumb-http-finalize later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 66893a14d0 ps/leakfixes-part-8 later to maint).
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(merge 1164e270b5 jk/output-prefix-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -99,3 +133,8 @@ Fixes since v2.47
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(merge a73070fbd4 ks/t4205-fixup later to maint).
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(merge 9e362dd060 co/t6050-pipefix later to maint).
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(merge 91687cd13f sk/t7011-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge 19c291e5b2 ua/t3404-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge c32d4a8cfe ss/duplicate-typos later to maint).
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+ (merge 09bf122507 sk/t9101-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge c348191afe ak/t1016-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge f56f9d6c0b ak/more-typofixes later to maint).