The tenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 18, 2025 at 10:06 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc
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"--format=nul", and learns to report the objects format used in the
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repository.
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+ * "core.commentChar=auto" that attempts to dynamically pick a
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+ suitable comment character is non-workable, as it is too much
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+ trouble to support for little benefit, and is marked as deprecated.
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+ * "git send-email" learned to drive "git imap-send" to store already
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+ sent e-mails in an IMAP folder.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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singleton variable, which has been updated to pass an instance
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throughout the callchain.
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+ * CodingGuidelines now spells out how bitfields are to be written.
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+ * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectivel enables tracing
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+ options, so that our tests can continue to work.
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+ (merge 1b5a6bfff3 jk/curl-global-trace-components later to maint).
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+ * The clear_alloc_state() API function was not fully clearing the
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+ structure for reuse, but since nobody reuses it, replace it with a
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+ variant that frees the structure as well, making the callers simpler.
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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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Fixes since v2.51
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exhaust memory storing them redundantly, which has been corrected.
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(merge 88a2dc68c8 ps/upload-pack-oom-protection later to maint).
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+ * A corner case bug in "git log -L..." has been corrected.
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+ (merge e3106998ff sg/line-log-boundary-fixes later to maint).
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+ * "git rev-parse --short" and friends failed to disambiguate two
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+ objects with object names that share common prefix longer than 32
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+ characters, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 8655908b9e jc/longer-disambiguation-fix later to maint).
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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).
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(merge c25651aefd ds/midx-write-fixes later to maint).
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(merge 069c15d256 rs/object-name-extend-abbrev-len-update later to maint).
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(merge bf5c224537 mm/worktree-doc-typofix later to maint).
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+ (merge 31397bc4f7 kh/doc-fast-import-markup-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge ac7096723b jc/doc-includeif-hasconfig-remote-url-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge fafc9b08b8 ag/doc-sendmail-gmail-example-update later to maint).