The sixth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 16, 2025 at 13:54 UTC
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this message has been turned into an advice message that can be
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turned off.
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+ * "git rev-list" learns machine-parsable output format that delimits
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+ each field with NUL.
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+ * "git maintenance" learns a new task to expire reflog entries.
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+ * Auth-related (and unrelated) error handling in send-email has been
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+ made more robust.
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+ * Updating multiple references have only been possible in all-or-none
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+ fashion with transactions, but it can be more efficient to batch
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+ multiple updates even when some of them are allowed to fail in a
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+ best-effort manner. A new "best effort batches of updates" mode
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+ has been introduced.
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+ * "git help --build-options" reports SHA-1 and SHA-256 backends used
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+ in the build.
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+ * "git cat-file --batch" and friends learned to allow "--filter=" to
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+ omit certain objects, just like the transport layer does.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The object layer has been updated to take an explicit repository
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instance as a parameter in more code paths.
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+ * Some warnings from "-Wsign-compare" for builtin/rm.c have been
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+ squelched.
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+ * A few traditional unit tests have been rewritten to use the clar
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+ framework.
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+ * Some warnings from "-Wsign-compare" for pathspec.c have been
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+ squelched.
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+ * "make test" used to have a hard dependency on (basic) Perl; tests
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+ have been rewritten help environment with NO_PERL test the build as
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+ much as possible.
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Fixes since v2.49
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which has been corrected..
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(merge d3b5832381 pw/custom-conflict-marker-size-for-merge-related-docs later to maint).
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+ * Squelch false-positive from sparse.
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+ (merge da87b58014 dd/sparse-glibc-workaround later to maint).
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+ * Adjust to the deprecation of use of Ubuntu 20.04 GitHub Actions CI.
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+ (merge 832d9f6d0b js/ci-github-update-ubuntu later to maint).
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+ * Work around CI breakage due to fedora base image getting updated.
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+ (merge 8a471a663b js/ci-fedora-gawk later to maint).
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+ * A ref transaction corner case fix.
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+ (merge b9fadeead7 jt/ref-transaction-abort-fix later to maint).
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+ * Random build fixes.
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+ (merge 85e1d6819f ps/misc-build-fixes later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
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(merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).