The fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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Git v2.44 Release Notes
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+Backward Compatibility Notes
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+ * "git chekcout -B <branch>" used to allow switching to a branch that
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+ is in use on another worktree, but this was by mistake. The users
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+ need to use "--ignore-other-worktrees" option.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)"
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arguments to the "add/set" subcommands of "git sparse-checkout"
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better.
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+ * "git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]" allowed a branch that is
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+ in use in another worktree to be updated and checked out, which
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+ might be a bit unexpected. The rule has been tightened, which is a
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+ breaking change. "--ignore-other-worktrees" option is required to
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+ unbreak you, if you are used to the current behaviour that "-B"
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+ overrides the safety.
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+ (merge b23285a921 jc/checkout-B-branch-in-use later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Subject approxidate() and show_date() machinery to OSS-Fuzz.
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+ * A new helper to let us pretend that we called lstat() when we know
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+ our cache_entry is up-to-date via fsmonitor.
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+ * The optimization based on fsmonitor in the "diff --cached"
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+ codepath is resurrected with the "fake-lstat" introduced earlier.
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+ * Test balloon to use C99 "bool" type from <stdbool.h> has been
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+ * "git clone" has been prepared to allow cloning a repository with
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+ non-default hash function into a repository that uses the reftable
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Fixes since v2.43
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specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected.
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(merge d49cb162fa jk/implicit-true later to maint).
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+ * Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git
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+ show-ref".
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+ (merge 7382497372 rs/show-ref-incompatible-options later to maint).
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+ * The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid
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+ recursion.
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+ (merge dee182941f jk/mailinfo-iterative-unquote-comment later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message,
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+ which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 18ce48918c jx/fetch-atomic-error-message-fix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 50f1abcff6 js/packfile-h-typofix later to maint).
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(merge cbf498eb53 jb/reflog-expire-delete-dry-run-options later to maint).
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(merge e4299d26d4 mk/doc-gitfile-more later to maint).
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(merge 792b86283b rs/incompatible-options-messages later to maint).
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(merge ea8f9494ab jk/config-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge d1bd3a8c34 jk/mailinfo-oob-read-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge c0cadb0576 ps/reftable-fixes later to maint).
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+ (merge 647b5e0998 ps/chainlint-self-check-update later to maint).
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+ (merge 68fcebfb1a es/add-doc-list-short-form-of-all-in-synopsis later to maint).
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+ (merge bc62d27d5c jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special later to maint).
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+ (merge 6d6f1cd7ee jc/doc-misspelt-refs-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 37e8d795be sp/test-i18ngrep later to maint).
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+ (merge fbc6526ea6 rs/t6300-compressed-size-fix later to maint).