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| Git 2.18 Release Notes
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| ======================
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| 
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| Updates since v2.17
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| -------------------
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| 
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| UI, Workflows & Features
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| 
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|  * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has
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|    learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
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|    z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
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|    want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
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|    'x' moved to 'z'.  A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename
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|    to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this
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|    work.  Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the
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|    working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what
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|    our side originally had.
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| 
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|  * "git filter-branch" learned to use a different exit code to allow
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|    the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to
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|    rewrite from other error cases.
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| 
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|  * When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify
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|    "tlsv1.3" as its value.
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| 
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|  * "git gui" learned that "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub" and
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|    "~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub" are also possible SSH key files.
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|    (merge 2e2f0288ef bb/git-gui-ssh-key-files later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git gui" performs commit upon CTRL/CMD+ENTER but the
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|    CTRL/CMD+KP_ENTER (i.e. enter key on the numpad) did not have the
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|    same key binding.  It now does.
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|    (merge 28a1d94a06 bp/git-gui-bind-kp-enter later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git gui" has been taught to work with old versions of tk (like
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|    8.5.7) that do not support "ttk::style theme use" as a way to query
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|    the current theme.
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|    (merge 4891961105 cb/git-gui-ttk-style later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git rebase" has learned to honor "--signoff" option when using
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|    backends other than "am" (but not "--preserve-merges").
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| 
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|  * "git branch --list" during an interrupted "rebase -i" now lets
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|    users distinguish the case where a detached HEAD is being rebased
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|    and a normal branch is being rebased.
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| 
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|  * "git mergetools" learned talking to guiffy.
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| 
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|  * The scripts in contrib/emacs/ have outlived their usefulness and
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|    have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user
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|    there are replacements.
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| 
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|  * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
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|    contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
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|    tree (and the other way around when checking in).
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| 
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|  * The "git config" command uses separate options e.g. "--int",
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|    "--bool", etc. to specify what type the caller wants the value to
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|    be interpreted as.  A new "--type=<typename>" option has been
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|    introduced, which would make it cleaner to define new types.
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| 
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|  * "git config --get" learned the "--default" option, to help the
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|    calling script.  Building on top of the above changes, the
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|    "git config" learns "--type=color" type.  Taken together, you can
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|    do things like "git config --get foo.color --default blue" and get
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|    the ANSI color sequence for the color given to foo.color variable,
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|    or "blue" if the variable does not exist.
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| 
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|  * "git ls-remote" learned an option to allow sorting its output based
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|    on the refnames being shown.
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| 
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|  * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git
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|    stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred
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|    spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible
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|    completion candidate when "git stash push" can be.
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| 
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|  * "git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then
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|    silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense"
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|    failed to parse its command line.  This has been corrected.
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| 
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|  * Error messages from "git push" can be painted for more visibility.
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| 
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|  * "git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental
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|    "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used.
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|    This has been removed.
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| 
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|  * The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by
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|    the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal
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|    code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up
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|    in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.
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| 
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|  * "git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch.
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| 
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|  * "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter
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|    option. Now it does as "-P".
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|    (merge 7213c28818 js/no-pager-shorthand later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole
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|    topology of commit graph elsewhere.
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| 
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|  * "git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff
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|    configuration variables such as diff.renames.
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| 
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|  * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
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|    custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
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|    custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
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|    newer version of bash-completion.
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| 
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|  * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this
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|    email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'.  A new action
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|    'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice.
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| 
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|  * With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge
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|    strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed
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|    paths and merge them accordingly.
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| 
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|  * "git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to
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|    skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to
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|    do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the
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|    "git diff" command.
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| 
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|  * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames
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|    for various commands better.
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| 
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|  * "git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the
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|    originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one,
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|    and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of
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|    the commit.
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| 
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|  * Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone.
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| 
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|  * When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there
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|    are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their
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|    names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message.
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|    These object names are now sorted according to their types for
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|    easier eyeballing.
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| 
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|  * "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take
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|    advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended
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|    so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured
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|    refspec.
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| 
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|  * Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding
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|    from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise
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|    and negotiate the best one.
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| 
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|  * "git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4.
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|    (merge 123f631761 ld/p4-unshelve later to maint).
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| 
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| 
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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| 
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|  * A "git fetch" from a repository with insane number of refs into a
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|    repository that is already up-to-date still wasted too many cycles
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|    making many lstat(2) calls to see if these objects at the tips
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|    exist as loose objects locally.  These lstat(2) calls are optimized
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|    away by enumerating all loose objects beforehand.
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|    It is unknown if the new strategy negatively affects existing use
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|    cases, fetching into a repository with many loose objects from a
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|    repository with small number of refs.
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| 
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|  * Git can be built to use either v1 or v2 of the PCRE library, and so
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|    far, the build-time configuration USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease instructed
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|    the build procedure to use v1, but now it means v2.  USE_LIBPCRE1
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|    and USE_LIBPCRE2 can be used to explicitly choose which version to
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|    use, as before.
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| 
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|  * The build procedure learned to optionally use symbolic links
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|    (instead of hardlinks and copies) to install "git-foo" for built-in
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|    commands, whose binaries are all identical.
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| 
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|  * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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| 
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|  * The way "git worktree prune" worked internally has been simplified,
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|    by assuming how "git worktree move" moves an existing worktree to a
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|    different place.
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| 
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|  * Code clean-up for the "repository" abstraction.
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|    (merge 00a3da2a13 nd/remove-ignore-env-field later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Code to find the length to uniquely abbreviate object names based
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|    on packfile content, which is a relatively recent addition, has been
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|    optimized to use the same fan-out table.
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| 
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|  * The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line
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|    completion continues to get extended and polished.
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| 
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|  * Copies of old scripted Porcelain commands in contrib/examples/ have
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|    been removed.
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| 
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|  * Some tests that rely on the exact hardcoded values of object names
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|    have been updated in preparation for hash function migration.
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| 
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|  * Perf-test update.
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| 
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|  * Test helper update.
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| 
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|  * The effort continues to refactor the internal global data structure
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|    to make it possible to open multiple repositories, work with and
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|    then close them,
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| 
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|  * Small test-helper programs have been consolidated into a single
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|    binary.
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| 
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|  * API clean-up around ref-filter code.
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| 
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|  * Shell completion (in contrib) that gives list of paths have been
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|    optimized somewhat.
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| 
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|  * The index file is updated to record the fsmonitor section after a
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|    full scan was made, to avoid wasting the effort that has already
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|    spent.
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| 
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|  * Performance measuring framework in t/perf learned to help bisecting
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|    performance regressions.
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| 
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|  * Some multi-word source filenames are being renamed to separate
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|    words with dashes instead of underscores.
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| 
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|  * An reusable "memory pool" implementation has been extracted from
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|    fast-import.c, which in turn has become the first user of the
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|    mem-pool API.
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| 
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|  * A build-time option has been added to allow Git to be told to refer
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|    to its associated files relative to the main binary, in the same
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|    way that has been possible on Windows for quite some time, for
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|    Linux, BSDs and Darwin.
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| 
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|  * Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal
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|    in a separate file to optimize graph walking.
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| 
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|  * The effort to pass the repository in-core structure throughout the
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|    API continues.  This round deals with the code that implements the
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|    refs/replace/ mechanism.
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| 
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|  * The build procedure "make DEVELOPER=YesPlease" learned to enable a
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|    bit more warning options depending on the compiler used to help
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|    developers more.  There also is "make DEVOPTS=tokens" knob
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|    available now, for those who want to help fixing warnings we
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|    usually ignore, for example.
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| 
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|  * A new version of the transport protocol is being worked on.
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| 
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|  * The code to interface to GPG has been restructured somewhat to make
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|    it cleaner to integrate with other types of signature systems later.
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| 
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|  * The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored
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|    in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit
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|    to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense
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|    to do so.
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| 
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|  * "git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers
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|    to repack all objects into one pack by default.  The command has
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|    been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is
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|    marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in
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|    other packs and loose ones are repacked.
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| 
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|  * The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further.
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| 
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|  * The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the
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|    repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store
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|    the objects are to be located).
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| 
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|  * "git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry"
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|    while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance
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|    quite a bit.
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| 
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|  * The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use
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|    the sequencer machinery more.
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| 
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|  * Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to
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|    mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly.
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| 
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|  * Developer support.  Use newer GCC on one of the builds done at
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|    TravisCI.org to get more warnings and errors diagnosed.
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| 
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|  * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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| 
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|  * By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive,
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|    informational messages from the codepath are now given using the
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|    same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity
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|    configuration.  The code also learned to give a few new messages
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|    when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side
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|    records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side.
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| 
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|  * Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier.
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|    (merge ac4896f007 jk/snprintf-truncation later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once
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|    we migrate away from SHA-1.  While some of them must test against
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|    exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded
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|    constants in the test.  The latter kind of tests have been updated
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|    to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the
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|    actual object names.
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| 
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|  * The list of commands with their various attributes were spread
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|    across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a
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|    bit more consolidated to allow more automation.
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| 
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|  * Quite a many tests assumed that newly created refs are made as
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|    loose refs using the files backend, which have been updated to use
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|    proper plumbing like rev-parse and update-ref, to avoid breakage
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|    once we start using different ref backends.
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| 
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| 
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| Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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| 
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| 
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| Fixes since v2.17
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| -----------------
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| 
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|  * "git shortlog cruft" aborted with a BUG message when run outside a
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|    Git repository.  The command has been taught to complain about
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|    extra and unwanted arguments on its command line instead in such a
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|    case.
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|    (merge 4aa0161e83 ma/shortlog-revparse later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git stash push -u -- <pathspec>" gave an unnecessary and confusing
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|    error message when there was no tracked files that match the
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|    <pathspec>, which has been fixed.
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|    (merge 353278687e tg/stash-untracked-with-pathspec-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git tag --contains no-such-commit" gave a full list of options
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|    after giving an error message.
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|    (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log
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|    --graph" output better.
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|    (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * when refs that do not point at committish are given, "git
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|    filter-branch" gave a misleading error messages.  This has been
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|    corrected.
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|    (merge f78ab355e7 yk/filter-branch-non-committish-refs later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git submodule status" misbehaved on a submodule that has been
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|    removed from the working tree.
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|    (merge 74b6bda32f rs/status-with-removed-submodule later to maint).
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| 
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|  * When credential helper exits very quickly without reading its
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|    input, it used to cause Git to die with SIGPIPE, which has been
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|    fixed.
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|    (merge a0d51e8d0e eb/cred-helper-ignore-sigpipe later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git rebase --keep-empty" still removed an empty commit if the
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|    other side contained an empty commit (due to the "does an
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|    equivalent patch exist already?" check), which has been corrected.
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|    (merge 3d946165e1 pw/rebase-keep-empty-fixes later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Some codepaths, including the refs API, get and keep relative
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|    paths, that go out of sync when the process does chdir(2).  The
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|    chdir-notify API is introduced to let these codepaths adjust these
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|    cached paths to the new current directory.
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|    (merge fb9c2d2703 jk/relative-directory-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "cd sub/dir && git commit ../path" ought to record the changes to
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|    the file "sub/path", but this regressed long time ago.
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|    (merge 86238e07ef bw/commit-partial-from-subdirectory-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Recent introduction of "--log-destination" option to "git daemon"
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|    did not work well when the daemon was run under "--inetd" mode.
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|    (merge e67d906d73 lw/daemon-log-destination later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Small fix to the autoconf build procedure.
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|    (merge 249482daf0 es/fread-reads-dir-autoconf-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Fix an unexploitable (because the oversized contents are not under
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|    attacker's control) buffer overflow.
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|    (merge d8579accfa bp/fsmonitor-bufsize-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Recent simplification of build procedure forgot a bit of tweak to
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|    the build procedure of contrib/mw-to-git/
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|    (merge d8698987f3 ab/simplify-perl-makefile later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Moving a submodule that itself has submodule in it with "git mv"
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|    forgot to make necessary adjustment to the nested sub-submodules;
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|    now the codepath learned to recurse into the submodules.
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| 
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|  * "git config --unset a.b", when "a.b" is the last variable in an
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|    otherwise empty section "a", left an empty section "a" behind, and
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|    worse yet, a subsequent "git config a.c value" did not reuse that
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|    empty shell and instead created a new one.  These have been
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|    (partially) corrected.
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|    (merge c71d8bb38a js/empty-config-section-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git worktree remove" learned that "-f" is a shorthand for
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|    "--force" option, just like for "git worktree add".
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|    (merge d228eea514 sb/worktree-remove-opt-force later to maint).
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| 
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|  * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of
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|    command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient
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|    way.
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|    (merge 94408dc71c sg/completion-clear-cached later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git svn" had a minor thinko/typo which has been fixed.
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|    (merge 51db271587 ab/git-svn-get-record-typofix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * During a "rebase -i" session, the code could give older timestamp
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|    to commits created by later "pick" than an earlier "reword", which
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|    has been corrected.
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|    (merge 12f7babd6b js/ident-date-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git submodule status" did not check the symbolic revision name it
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|    computed for the submodule HEAD is not the NULL, and threw it at
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|    printf routines, which has been corrected.
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|    (merge 0b5e2ea7cf nd/submodule-status-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * When fed input that already has In-Reply-To: and/or References:
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|    headers and told to add the same information, "git send-email"
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|    added these headers separately, instead of appending to an existing
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|    one, which is a violation of the RFC.  This has been corrected.
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|    (merge 256be1d3f0 sa/send-email-dedup-some-headers later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git fast-export" had a regression in v2.15.0 era where it skipped
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|    some merge commits in certain cases, which has been corrected.
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|    (merge be011bbe00 ma/fast-export-skip-merge-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via
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|    COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does.  This caused
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|    trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row"
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|    tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width.
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|    (merge b5d5a567fb nd/term-columns later to maint).
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| 
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|  * We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions
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|    are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are
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|    better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers.
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|    (merge 7818b619e2 ab/perl-python-attrs later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a
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|    combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption
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|    inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which
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|    has been fixed.
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|    (merge 15ef69314d js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue later to maint).
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| 
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|  * A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been
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|    updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a
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|    path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice
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|    versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS.
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|    (merge 742ae10e35 tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart
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|    message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the
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|    cover letter as plain text file.
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|    (merge 50cd54ef4e bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach later to maint).
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| 
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|  * The split-index feature had a long-standing and dormant bug in
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|    certain use of the in-core merge machinery, which has been fixed.
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|    (merge 7db118303a en/unpack-trees-split-index-fix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not
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|    render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with
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|    HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs.
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|    (merge 379805051d bc/asciidoctor-tab-width later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that
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|    allows lockfile instances kept on the stack.
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|    (merge 0fa5a2ed8d ma/lockfile-cleanup later to maint).
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| 
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|  * the_repository->index is not a allocated piece of memory but
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|    repo_clear() indiscriminately attempted to free(3) it, which has
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|    been corrected.
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|    (merge 74373b5f10 nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Code clean-up to avoid non-standard-conformant pointer arithmetic.
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|    (merge c112084af9 rs/no-null-ptr-arith-in-fast-export later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a
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|    semi-corrupt repository.
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|    (merge 8702b30fd7 jk/unavailable-can-be-missing later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet
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|    exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly
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|    for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD.
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| 
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|  * "git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the
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|    "--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local
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|    repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent
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|    invention "--dissociate".  Also "git submodule add" has been taught
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|    to take the "--progress" option.
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|    (merge a0ef29341a cf/submodule-progress-dissociate later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Update credential-netrc helper (in contrib/) to allow customizing
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|    the GPG used to decrypt the encrypted .netrc file.
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|    (merge 786ef50a23 lm/credential-netrc later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch"
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|    against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the
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|    submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind
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|    (i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one
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|    (i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective.
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|    This has been corrected.
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|    (merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was
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|    inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has
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|    been corrected to error out early.
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|    (merge b2aa84c789 sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index later to maint).
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| 
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|  * We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths,
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|    which have been corrected.
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|    (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint).
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| 
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|  * The import-tars script (in contrib/) has been taught to handle
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|    tarballs with overly long paths that use PAX extended headers.
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|    (merge 12ecea46e3 pa/import-tars-long-names later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git rev-parse Y..." etc. misbehaved when given endpoints were
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|    not committishes.
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|    (merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule
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|    repository's history did not have anything common between ours and
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|    the upstream's, failed to execute.  We need to fetch from them to
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|    continue even in such a case.
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|    (merge 4d36f88be7 jt/submodule-pull-recurse-rebase later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a
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|    nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented.
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|    (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the
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|    final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed
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|    packfile available to itself.
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|    (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Make zlib inflate codepath more robust against versions of zlib
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|    that clobber unused portion of outbuf.
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|    (merge b611396e97 jl/zlib-restore-nul-termination later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Fix old merge glitch in Documentation during v2.13-rc0 era.
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|    (merge 28cb06020b mw/doc-merge-enumfix later to maint).
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| 
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|  * The code to read compressed bitmap was not careful to avoid reading
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|    past the end of the file, which has been corrected.
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|    (merge 1140bf01ec jk/ewah-bounds-check later to maint).
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| 
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|  * "make NO_ICONV=NoThanks" did not override NEEDS_LIBICONV
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|    (i.e. linkage of -lintl, -liconv, etc. that are platform-specific
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|    tweaks), which has been corrected.
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|    (merge fdb1fbbc7d es/make-no-iconv later to maint).
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| 
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|  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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|    (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
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|    (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
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|    (merge 5988eb631a ab/doc-hash-brokenness later to maint).
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|    (merge a4d4e32a70 pk/test-avoid-pipe-hiding-exit-status later to maint).
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|    (merge 05e293c1ac jk/flockfile-stdio later to maint).
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|    (merge e9184b0789 jk/t5561-missing-curl later to maint).
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|    (merge b1801b85a3 nd/worktree-move later to maint).
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|    (merge bbd374dd20 ak/bisect-doc-typofix later to maint).
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|    (merge 4855f06fb3 mn/send-email-credential-doc later to maint).
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|    (merge 8523b1e355 en/doc-typoes later to maint).
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|    (merge 43b44ccfe7 js/t5404-path-fix later to maint).
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|    (merge decf711fc1 ps/test-chmtime-get later to maint).
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|    (merge 22d11a6e8e es/worktree-docs later to maint).
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|    (merge 92a5dbbc22 tg/use-git-contacts later to maint).
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|    (merge adc887221f tq/t1510 later to maint).
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|    (merge bed21a8ad6 sg/doc-gc-quote-mismatch-fix later to maint).
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|    (merge 73364e4f10 tz/doc-git-urls-reference later to maint).
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|    (merge cd1e606bad bc/mailmap-self later to maint).
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|    (merge f7997e3682 ao/config-api-doc later to maint).
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|    (merge ee930754d8 jk/apply-p-doc later to maint).
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|    (merge 011b648646 nd/pack-format-doc later to maint).
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|    (merge 87a6bb701a sg/t5310-jgit-bitmap-test later to maint).
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|    (merge f6b82970aa sg/t5516-fixes later to maint).
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|    (merge 4362da078e sg/t7005-spaces-in-filenames-cleanup later to maint).
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|    (merge 7d0ee47c11 js/test-unset-prereq later to maint).
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|    (merge 5356a3c354 ah/misc-doc-updates later to maint).
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|    (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint).
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|    (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint).
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|    (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint).
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|    (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint).
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|    (merge 590551ca2c rd/tag-doc-lightweight later to maint).
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|    (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint).
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|    (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint).
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|    (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint).
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|    (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint).
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|    (merge efde7b725c rd/comment-typofix-in-sha1-file later to maint).
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|    (merge 7eedad15df rd/diff-options-typofix later to maint).
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|    (merge 58ebd936cc km/doc-workflows-typofix later to maint).
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|    (merge 30aa96cdf8 rd/doc-remote-tracking-with-hyphen later to maint).
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|    (merge cf317877e3 ks/branch-set-upstream later to maint).
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|    (merge 8de19d6be8 sg/t7406-chain-fix later to maint).
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