kernel
/
git
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

The 16th batch 

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
main
Junio C Hamano 2026-08-20 07:30:30 -07:00
parent 3f664917c2
commit 1a3e64c6c4
1 changed files with 16 additions and 0 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

16
Documentation/RelNotes/2.56.0.adoc
View File

@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
automatically run 'git bisect reset' to jump back to the original
state or to the found culprit.

* The 'git branch' command has been taught the '--delete-merged' option
to remove local branches that are already merged into their tracked
remote-tracking branches.


Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
@ -371,6 +375,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
Calls to write(3p) in send_sideband() and cat_blob() have been
refactored to use writev(3p) wrappers to reduce syscall overhead.

* The creation of the on-disk data structures for the object database
has been made pluggable, allowing future backends to customize their
setup. As part of this, the initialization of the object database
has been deferred, and the loading of the loose-object map has been
detangled from repository initialization.


Fixes since v2.55
-----------------
@ -596,3 +606,9 @@ Fixes since v2.55
* Documentation for 'git replay' has been updated to refer to its
configuration variables.
(merge 48c0549f5c kh/doc-replay-config later to maint).

* Documentation for 'git interpret-trailers' has been updated to explain
the format of trailer keys (alphanumeric characters and hyphens),
replace outdated terminology, define key terms upfront, and document
how comment lines in the input are treated.
(merge 4515c86fd9 kh/doc-trailers later to maint).