The seventeenth batch, just before -rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 3, 2025 at 18:44 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc
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@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git pull" learned to pay attention to pull.autostash configuration
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variable, which overrides rebase/merge.autostash.
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+ * "git for-each-ref" learns "--start-after" option to help
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+ applications that want to page its output.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The reftable unit tests are now ported to the "clar" unit testing
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framework.
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+ * Redefine where the multi-pack-index sits in the object subsystem,
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+ which recently was restructured to allow multiple backends that
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+ support a single object source that belongs to one repository. A
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+ midx does span mulitple "object sources".
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Fixes since v2.50
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core.commentstring is set to 'auto'.
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(merge 92b7c7c9f5 ac/auto-comment-char-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase -i" with bogus rebase.instructionFormat configuration
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+ failed to produce the todo file after recording the state files,
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+ leading to confused "git status"; this has been corrected.
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+ (merge ade14bffd7 ow/rebase-verify-insn-fmt-before-initializing-state later to maint).
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+ * A few file descriptors left unclosed upon program completion in a
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+ few test helper programs are now closed.
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+ (merge 0f1b33815b hl/test-helper-fd-close 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 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).