The (real) first batch for 2.39

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

Junio C Hamano committed Oct 10, 2022 at 10:09 UTC e85701b4af5b7c2a9f3a1b07858703318dce365d
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1 Git v2.39 Release Notes
2 =======================
3
4 +UI, Workflows & Features
5 +------------------------
6 +
7 + * "git grep" learned to expand the sparse-index more lazily and on
8 + demand in a sparse checkout.
9 +
10 +
11 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
12 +--------------------------------------------------------------
13
14 * With a bit of header twiddling, use the native regexp library on
15 macOS instead of the compat/ one.
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19 * Sources related to fuzz testing have been moved down to their own
20 directory.
21
22 + * Most credential helpers ignored unknown entries in a credential
23 + description, but a few died upon seeing them. The latter were
24 + taught to ignore them, too
25 +
26 + * "scalar unregister" in a repository that is already been
27 + unregistered reported an error.
28 +
29
30 Fixes since v2.38
31 -----------------
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34 accesses, which has been corrected.
35 (merge 4a6ed30f96 vd/fix-unaligned-read-index-v4 later to maint).
36
37 + * Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation.
38 + (merge 02cb8b9ee3 ah/fsmonitor-daemon-usage-non-l10n later to maint).
39 +
40 + * "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used
41 + from the memory, which has been fixed.
42 + (merge 51b27747e5 jk/fsck-on-diet later to maint).
43 +
44 + * "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin"
45 + options used together without a good reason.
46 + (merge 3b910d6e29 jk/clone-allow-bare-and-o-together later to maint).
47 +
48 + * "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch
49 + refspec, which has been corrected.
50 + (merge 5a97b38109 jk/remote-rename-without-fetch-refspec later to maint).
51 +
52 + * Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
53 + been clarified.
54 + (merge 819fb68222 jc/environ-docs later to maint).
55 +
56 + * "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit
57 + itself, which has been corrected.
58 + (merge 3e367a5f2f ja/rebase-i-avoid-amending-self later to maint).
59 +
60 + * "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
61 + cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
62 + (merge b62ad5681f tb/midx-repack-ignore-cruft-packs later to maint).
63 +
64 + * In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a
65 + merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and
66 + led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected.
67 + (merge 92481d1b26 js/merge-ort-in-read-only-repo later to maint).
68 +
69 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
70 + (merge c34a6bd291 so/diff-merges-cleanup later to maint).
71 + (merge 5e7c8b75e7 ab/test-malloc-with-sanitize-leak later to maint).
72 + (merge 2a905f8fa8 ah/branch-autosetupmerge-grammofix later to maint).
73 + (merge abcac2e19f rj/ref-filter-get-head-description-leakfix later to maint).
74 + (merge 71e5473493 hn/parse-worktree-ref later to maint).