The 3rd batch for Git 2.56
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 15, 2026 at 13:24 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
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command is now recognized as a potential typo, and advice has been
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added to offer a typo fix.
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+ * The 'git refs' toolbox has been extended with new 'create', 'delete',
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+ 'update', and 'rename' subcommands to create, delete, update, and
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+ rename references, respectively.
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+ * The experimental 'git history' command has been taught a new 'drop'
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+ subcommand to remove a commit, with its descendants replayed onto its
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+ parent.
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+ * The alignment of commit object name abbreviations in 'git blame'
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+ output has been optimized to reserve a column for marks (caret,
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+ question mark, or asterisk) only when such marks are actually shown.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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flag, and a new 'odb_prepare()' wrapper has been introduced to allow
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pre-opening object database sources.
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+ * The 'whence' field in 'struct object_info' has been removed. The
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+ backend-specific object information retrieval has been refactored into
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+ an opt-in 'struct object_info_source' structure.
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+ * A racy build failure under Meson has been corrected by ensuring that
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+ the generated header file 'hook-list.h' is built before compiling
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+ files in 'builtin_sources' that depend on it.
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Fixes since v2.55
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plugged, and the leak reporting of the test suite when running under a
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TAP harness has been improved.
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(merge 973a0373ff jk/format-patch-leakfix later to maint).
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+ * A write file stream resource leak has been fixed as part of a code
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+ cleanup.
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+ (merge ebb4d2ffa3 jc/history-message-prep-fix later to maint).
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+ * Various memory leaks in the Bloom-filter code paths that are exposed
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+ when running tests with the 'GIT_TEST_COMMIT_GRAPH_CHANGED_PATHS=1'
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+ environment variable have been plugged.
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+ (merge 459088ec2e jk/bloom-leak-fixes later to maint).