The fourteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 25, 2023 at 12:05 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt
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@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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were regular files, to allow "git diff <(process) <(substitution)"
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some shells support.
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+ * Help newbies by suggesting that there are cases where force-pushing
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+ is a valid and sensible thing to update a branch at a remote
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+ repository, rather than reconciling with merge/rebase.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Enumerating refs in the packed-refs file, while excluding refs that
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match certain patterns, has been optimized.
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+ * Mark-up unused parameters in the code so that we can eventually
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+ enable -Wunused-parameter by default.
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Fixes since v2.41
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subsystem, which has been corrected.
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(merge 9281cd07f0 tb/fsck-no-progress later to maint).
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+ * Various offset computation in the code that accesses the packfiles
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+ and other data in the object layer has been hardened against
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+ arithmetic overflow, especially on 32-bit systems.
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+ (merge 9a25cad7e0 tb/object-access-overflow-protection later to maint).
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+ * Names of MinGW header files are spelled in mixed case in some
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+ source files, but the build host can be using case sensitive
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+ filesystem with header files with their name spelled in all
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+ lowercase.
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+ (merge 4a53d0d0bc mh/mingw-case-sensitive-build later to maint).
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+ * Update message mark-up for i18n in "git bundle".
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+ (merge bbb6acd998 dk/bundle-i18n-more later to maint).
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+ * "git tag --list --points-at X" showed tags that directly refers to
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+ object X, but did not list a tag that points at such a tag, which
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+ has been corrected.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 51f9d2e563 sa/doc-ls-remote later to maint).
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(merge c6d26a9dda jk/format-patch-message-id-unleak later to maint).