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@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Backward compatibility note
UI, Workflows & Features UI, Workflows & Features
* We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of
the system. Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering.
* The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
@ -28,6 +31,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns. * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns.
(merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint). (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint).
* "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge
strategies and pass strategy specific options to them.
* A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced.
* Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been
added.
* The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more
than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading
missing objects on demand.
* The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone)
learned to take a combined filter specification.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -39,6 +57,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Further clean-up of the initialization code. * Further clean-up of the initialization code.
* xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address
space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation
failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex
and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource
users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms.
It has been simplified away.
* Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been
optimized away.
* The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports
learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been
corrected.
Fixes since v2.23 Fixes since v2.23
----------------- -----------------
@ -99,6 +131,10 @@ Fixes since v2.23
subsequent steps. subsequent steps.
(merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint). (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint).
* Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the
xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency.
(merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint). (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint).
(merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint). (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint).