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1 Git v2.45 Release Notes
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4 Backward Compatibility Notes
6 UI, Workflows & Features
8 * Integrate the reftable code into the refs framework as a backend.
9 With "git init --ref-format=reftable", hopefully it would be a lot
10 more efficient to manage a repository with many references.
12 * "git checkout -p" and friends learned that that "@" is a synonym
13 for "HEAD".
15 * Variants of vimdiff learned to honor mergetool.<variant>.layout
16 settings.
18 * "git reflog" learned a "list" subcommand that enumerates known reflogs.
20 * When a merge conflicted at a submodule, merge-ort backend used to
21 unconditionally give a lengthy message to suggest how to resolve
22 it. Now the message can be squelched as an advice message.
24 * "git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show
25 even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy.
28 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
30 * The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen
31 some optimization.
33 * More tests that are marked as "ref-files only" have been updated to
34 improve test coverage of reftable backend.
36 * Some parts of command line completion script (in contrib/) have
37 been micro-optimized.
39 * The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been
40 specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair
41 of <angle-brakets> emphasized.
44 Fixes since v2.44
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47 * "git apply" on a filesystem without filemode support have learned
48 to take a hint from what is in the index for the path, even when
49 not working with the "--index" or "--cached" option, when checking
50 the executable bit match what is required by the preimage in the
51 patch.
52 (merge 45b625142d cp/apply-core-filemode later to maint).
54 * "git column" has been taught to reject negative padding value, as
55 it would lead to nonsense behaviour including division by zero.
56 (merge 76fb807faa kh/column-reject-negative-padding later to maint).
58 * "git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in
59 "git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the
60 option is passed through to the underlying "git apply".
61 (merge a171dac734 jc/am-whitespace-doc later to maint).
63 * "git tag --column" failed to check the exit status of its "git
64 column" invocation, which has been corrected.
65 (merge 92e66478fc rj/tag-column-fix later to maint).
67 * Credential helper based on libsecret (in contrib/) has been updated
68 to handle an empty password correctly.
69 (merge 8f1f2023b7 mh/libsecret-empty-password-fix later to maint).
71 * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to honor the "--trust-exit-code"
72 option; it used to always exit with 0 and signalled success.
73 (merge eb84c8b6ce ps/difftool-dir-diff-exit-code later to maint).
75 * The code incorrectly attempted to use textconv cache when asked,
76 even when we are not running in a repository, which has been
77 corrected.
78 (merge affe355fe7 jk/textconv-cache-outside-repo-fix later to maint).
80 * Remove an empty file that shouldn't have been added in the first
81 place.
82 (merge 4f66942215 js/remove-cruft-files later to maint).
84 * The logic to access reflog entries by date and number had ugly
85 corner cases at the boundaries, which have been cleaned up.
86 (merge 5edd126720 jk/reflog-special-cases-fix later to maint).
88 * An error message from "git upload-pack", which responds to "git
89 fetch" requests, had a trialing NUL in it, which has been
90 corrected.
91 (merge 3f4c7a0805 sg/upload-pack-error-message-fix later to maint).
93 * Clarify wording in the CodingGuidelines that requires <git-compat-util.h>
94 to be the first header file.
95 (merge 4e89f0e07c jc/doc-compat-util later to maint).
97 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
98 (merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint).
99 (merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint).
100 (merge 64562d784d jb/doc-interactive-singlekey-do-not-need-perl later to maint).
101 (merge c431a235e2 cp/t9146-use-test-path-helpers later to maint).
102 (merge 82d75402d5 ds/doc-send-email-capitalization later to maint).
103 (merge 41bff66e35 jc/doc-add-placeholder-fix later to maint).
104 (merge 6835f0efe9 jw/remote-doc-typofix later to maint).
105 (merge 244001aa20 hs/rebase-not-in-progress later to maint).
106 (merge 2ca6c07db2 jc/no-include-of-compat-util-from-headers later to maint).
107 (merge 87bd7fbb9c rs/fetch-simplify-with-starts-with later to maint).
108 (merge f39addd0d9 rs/name-rev-with-mempool later to maint).
109 (merge 9a97b43e03 rs/submodule-prefix-simplify later to maint).
110 (merge 40b8076462 ak/rebase-autosquash later to maint).