The fourteenth batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Oct 18, 2021 at 15:48 UTC 9d530dc0024503ab4218fe6c4395b8a0aa245478
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
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@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git 2.34 Release Notes
4 Updates since Git 2.33
5 ----------------------
6
7 +Backward compatibility notes
8 +
9 + * The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.
10 +
11 +
12 UI, Workflows & Features
13
14 * Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
@@ -66,6 +71,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
71 updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
72 the user specifies a "--sparse" option.
73
74 + * "git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
75 + bitmaps.
76 +
77
78 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
79
@@ -297,6 +305,35 @@ Fixes since v2.33
305 * A few kinds of changes "git status" can show were not documented.
306 (merge d2a534c515 ja/doc-status-types-and-copies later to maint).
307
308 + * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
309 + optimized.
310 + (merge c90cfc225b rs/mergesort later to maint).
311 +
312 + * An editor session launched during a Git operation (e.g. during 'git
313 + commit') can leave the terminal in a funny state. The code path
314 + has updated to save the terminal state before, and restore it
315 + after, it spawns an editor.
316 + (merge 3d411afabc cm/save-restore-terminal later to maint).
317 +
318 + * "git cat-file --batch" with the "--batch-all-objects" option is
319 + supposed to iterate over all the objects found in a repository, but
320 + it used to translate these object names using the replace mechanism,
321 + which defeats the point of enumerating all objects in the repository.
322 + This has been corrected.
323 + (merge bf972896d7 jk/cat-file-batch-all-wo-replace later to maint).
324 +
325 + * Recent sparse-index work broke safety against attempts to add paths
326 + with trailing slashes to the index, which has been corrected.
327 + (merge c8ad9d04c6 rs/make-verify-path-really-verify-again later to maint).
328 +
329 + * The "--color-lines" and "--color-by-age" options of "git blame"
330 + have been missing, which are now documented.
331 + (merge 8c32856133 bs/doc-blame-color-lines later to maint).
332 +
333 + * The PATH used in CI job may be too wide and let incompatible dlls
334 + to be grabbed, which can cause the build&test to fail. Tighten it.
335 + (merge 7491ef6198 js/windows-ci-path-fix later to maint).
336 +
337 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
338 (merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint).
339 (merge 8c6b4332b4 rs/close-pack-leakfix later to maint).
@@ -305,3 +342,4 @@ Fixes since v2.33
342 (merge 6ffb990dc4 os/status-docfix later to maint).
343 (merge 100c2da2d3 rs/p3400-lose-tac later to maint).
344 (merge 76f3b69896 tb/aggregate-ignore-leading-whitespaces later to maint).
345 + (merge 6e4fd8bfcd tz/doc-link-to-bundle-format-fix later to maint).