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Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt

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* The 'pack.useSparse' configuration variable now defaults to 'true',
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enabling an optimization that has been experimental since Git 2.21.
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* "git rebase" happens to call some hooks meant for "checkout" and
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"commit" by this was not a designed behaviour than historical
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accident. This has been documented.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* A Windows-specific test element has been made more robust against
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misuse from both user's environment and programmer's errors.
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* Various tests have been updated to work around issues found with
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shell utilities that come with busybox etc.
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* The config API made mixed uses of int and size_t types to represent
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length of various pieces of text it parsed, which has been updated
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to use the correct type (i.e. size_t) throughout.
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* The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git
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log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable
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log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the
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family.
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Fixes since v2.26
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* Parsing the host part out of URL for the credential helper has been corrected.
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(merge 4c5971e18a jk/credential-parsing-end-of-host-in-URL later to maint).
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* Document the recommended way to abort a failing test early (e.g. by
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exiting a loop), which is to say "return 1".
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(merge 7cc112dc95 jc/doc-test-leaving-early later to maint).
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* The code that refreshes the last access and modified time of
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on-disk packfiles and loose object files have been updated.
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(merge 312cd76130 lr/freshen-file-fix later to maint).
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* Validation of push certificate has been made more robust against
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timing attacks.
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(merge 719483e547 bc/constant-memequal later to maint).
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* The custom hash function used by "git fast-import" has been
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replaced with the one from hashmap.c, which gave us a nice
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performance boost.
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(merge d8410a816b jk/fast-import-use-hashmap later to maint).
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* The "git submodule" command did not initialize a few variables it
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internally uses and was affected by variable settings leaked from
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the environment.
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(merge 65d100c4dd lx/submodule-clear-variables later to maint).
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* Raise the minimum required version of docbook-xsl package to 1.74,
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as 1.74.0 was from late 2008, which is more than 10 years old, and
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drop compatibility cruft from our documentation suite.
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(merge 3c255ad660 ma/doc-discard-docbook-xsl-1.73 later to maint).
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* "git log" learns "--[no-]mailmap" as a synonym to "--[no-]use-mailmap"
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(merge 88acccda38 jc/log-no-mailmap later to maint).
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* "git commit-graph write --expire-time=<timestamp>" did not use the
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given timestamp correctly, which has been corrected.
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(merge b09b785c78 ds/commit-graph-expiry-fix later to maint).
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* Tests update to use "test-chmtime" instead of "touch -t".
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(merge e892a56845 ds/t5319-touch-fix later to maint).
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* "git diff" in a partial clone learned to avoid lazy loading blob
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objects in more casese when they are not needed.
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(merge 95acf11a3d jt/avoid-prefetch-when-able-in-diff later to maint).
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* "git push --atomic" used to show failures for refs that weren't
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even pushed, which has been corrected.
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(merge dfe1b7f19c jx/atomic-push later to maint).
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* Code in builtin/*, i.e. those can only be called from within
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built-in subcommands, that implements bulk of a couple of
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subcommands have been moved to libgit.a so that they could be used
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by others.
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(merge 9460fd48b5 dl/libify-a-few later to maint).
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* Allowing the user to split a patch hunk while "git stash -p" does
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not work well; a band-aid has been added to make this (partially)
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work better.
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* "git diff-tree --pretty --notes" used to hit an assertion failure,
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as it forgot to initialize the notes subsystem.
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(merge 5778b22b3d tb/diff-tree-with-notes later to maint).
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* "git range-diff" fixes.
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(merge 8d1675eb7f vd/range-diff-with-custom-pretty-format-fix later to maint).
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* "git grep" did not quote a path with unusual character like other
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commands (like "git diff", "git status") do, but did quote when run
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from a subdirectory, both of which has been corrected.
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(merge 45115d8490 mt/grep-cquote-path later to maint).
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* GNU/Hurd is also among the ones that need the fopen() wrapper.
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(merge 274a1328fb jc/gnu-hurd-lets-fread-read-dirs later to maint).
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* Those fetching over protocol v2 from linux-next and other kernel
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repositories are reporting that v2 often fetches way too much than
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needed.
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(merge 11c7f2a30b jn/demote-proto2-from-default later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint).
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(merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint).
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(merge 0740d0a5d3 jk/oid-array-cleanups later to maint).
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(merge a1aba0c95c js/t0007-typofix later to maint).
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(merge 76ba7fa225 ma/config-doc-fix later to maint).
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(merge 826f0c0df2 js/subtree-doc-update-to-asciidoctor-2 later to maint).
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(merge 88eaf361e0 eb/mboxrd-doc later to maint).
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(merge 051cc54941 tm/zsh-complete-switch-restore later to maint).
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(merge 39102cf4fe ms/doc-revision-illustration-fix later to maint).

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