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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-08-03 18:44:07 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-08-03 18:44:28 -0700
commite0753259271b76f6e53b3b170b4bc08cca793bca (patch)
tree8c015d9483694b247c78ca09f23c3d0a99594279
parent750a95ba3fa8a7d1c48a6c2eae535b09dda68aa0 (diff)
downloadgit-e0753259271b76f6e53b3b170b4bc08cca793bca.tar.gz
The seventeenth batch, just before -rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git pull" learned to pay attention to pull.autostash configuration
variable, which overrides rebase/merge.autostash.
+ * "git for-each-ref" learns "--start-after" option to help
+ applications that want to page its output.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -125,6 +128,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The reftable unit tests are now ported to the "clar" unit testing
framework.
+ * Redefine where the multi-pack-index sits in the object subsystem,
+ which recently was restructured to allow multiple backends that
+ support a single object source that belongs to one repository. A
+ midx does span mulitple "object sources".
+
Fixes since v2.50
-----------------
@@ -252,6 +260,15 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
core.commentstring is set to 'auto'.
(merge 92b7c7c9f5 ac/auto-comment-char-fix later to maint).
+ * "git rebase -i" with bogus rebase.instructionFormat configuration
+ failed to produce the todo file after recording the state files,
+ leading to confused "git status"; this has been corrected.
+ (merge ade14bffd7 ow/rebase-verify-insn-fmt-before-initializing-state later to maint).
+
+ * A few file descriptors left unclosed upon program completion in a
+ few test helper programs are now closed.
+ (merge 0f1b33815b hl/test-helper-fd-close later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
(merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).