The ninth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 14, 2025 at 11:18 UTC
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@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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client, instead of retrying, it skipped it by mistake, which has
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been corrected.
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+ * The reftable ref backend has matured enough; Git 3.0 will make it
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+ the default format in a newly created repositories by default.
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+ * "netrc" credential helper has been improved to understand textual
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+ service names (like smtp) in addition to the numeric port numbers
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+ (like 25).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* "git push" and "git fetch" are taught to update refs in batches to
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gain performance.
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+ * Some code paths in the "git prune" used to ignore passed in
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+ repository object and used the_repository singleton instance
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+ instead, which has been corrected.
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+ * Update ".clang-format" and ".editorconfig" to match our style guide
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+ a bit better.
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+ * "make coccicheck" succeeds even when spatch made suggestions, which
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+ has been updated to fail in such a case.
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Fixes since v2.50
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* Remove unnecessary check from "git daemon" code.
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(merge 0c856224d2 cb/daemon-fd-check-fix later to maint).
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- * Leakfix.
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- (merge b0e9d25865 jk/fix-leak-send-pack later to maint).
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+ * Use of sysctl() system call to learn the total RAM size used on
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+ BSDs has been corrected.
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+ (merge 781c1cf571 cb/total-ram-bsd-fix later to maint).
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+ * Drop FreeBSD 4 support and declare that we support only FreeBSD 12
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+ or later, which has memmem() supported.
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+ (merge 0392f976a7 bs/config-mak-freebsd later to maint).
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+ * A diff-filter with negative-only specification like "git log
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+ --diff-filter=d" did not trigger correctly, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 375ac087c5 jk/all-negative-diff-filter-fix later to maint).
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+ * A failure to open the index file for writing due to conflicting
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+ access did not state what went wrong, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 9455397a5c hy/read-cache-lock-error-fix later to maint).
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+ * Tempfile removal fix in the codepath to sign commits with SSH keys.
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+ (merge 4498127b04 re/ssh-sign-buffer-fix later to maint).
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+ * Code and test clean-up around string-list API.
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+ (merge 6e5b26c3ff sj/string-list later to maint).
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+ * "git apply -N" should start from the current index and register
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+ only new files, but it instead started from an empty index, which
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge 2b49d97fcb rp/apply-intent-to-add-fix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
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(merge ff73f375bb jg/mailinfo-leakfix later to maint).
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(merge 996f14c02b jj/doc-branch-markup-fix later to maint).
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(merge 1e77de1864 cb/ci-freebsd-update-to-14.3 later to maint).
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+ (merge b0e9d25865 jk/fix-leak-send-pack later to maint).
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+ (merge f3a9558c8c bs/remote-helpers-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge c4e9775c60 kh/doc-config-subcommands later to maint).
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+ (merge de404249ab ps/perlless-test-fixes later to maint).
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+ (merge 953049eed8 ts/merge-orig-head-doc-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 0c83bbc704 rj/freebsd-sysinfo-build-fix later to maint).