The 20th batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Mar 24, 2026 at 12:31 UTC ce74208c2fa13943fffa58f168ac27a76d0eb789
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
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@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
91 * "git rebase" learns "--trailer" command to drive the
92 interpret-trailers machinery.
93
94 + * "git fast-import" learned to optionally replace signature on
95 + commits whose signatures get invalidated due to replaying by
96 + signing afresh.
97 +
98 + * "git history" learned the "split" subcommand.
99 +
100
101 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
102 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -212,6 +218,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
218
219 * Adjust test-lint to allow "sed -E" to use ERE in the patterns.
220
221 + * Clar (unit testing framework) update from the upstream.
222 +
223 + * Reduce system overhead "git upload-pack" spends on relaying "git
224 + pack-objects" output to the "git fetch" running on the other end of
225 + the connection.
226 +
227 + * Add a coccinelle rule to break the build when "struct strbuf" gets
228 + passed by value.
229 +
230
231 Fixes since v2.53
232 -----------------
@@ -358,6 +373,17 @@ Fixes since v2.53
373 available since OpenSSL 1.1 since 2016 or so.
374 (merge 6392a0b75d bb/imap-send-openssl-4.0-prep later to maint).
375
376 + * Fix an example in the user-manual.
377 + (merge 5514f14617 gj/user-manual-fix-grep-example later to maint).
378 +
379 + * The final clean-up phase of the diff output could turn the result of
380 + histogram diff algorithm suboptimal, which has been corrected.
381 + (merge e417277ae9 yc/histogram-hunk-shift-fix later to maint).
382 +
383 + * "git diff -U<num>" was too lenient in its command line parsing and
384 + took an empty string as a valid <num>.
385 + (merge 4f6a803aba ty/doc-diff-u-wo-number later to maint).
386 +
387 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
388 (merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
389 (merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).
@@ -401,3 +427,7 @@ Fixes since v2.53
427 (merge 35f220b639 ss/submodule--helper-use-xmalloc later to maint).
428 (merge 02cbae61df cf/constness-fixes later to maint).
429 (merge 69efd53c81 ms/t7605-test-path-is-helpers later to maint).
430 + (merge d39cef3a1a ss/t0410-delete-object-cleanup later to maint).
431 + (merge 2f05039717 rj/pack-refs-tests-path-is-helpers later to maint).
432 + (merge 2594747ad1 jk/transport-color-leakfix later to maint).
433 + (merge 48430e44ac mf/t0008-cleanup later to maint).