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The 18th batch 

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2026-08-24 13:17:38 -07:00
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@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
is now terminated with a newline so that Perl avoids appending its
internal source location data.

* The '--shallow-file' option of 'git' command requires a value, but the
code did not check the presence of a value and instead segfaulted
without one, which has been corrected.


Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@ -407,6 +411,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
early when one side's exclusive commits in the queue are exhausted,
yielding significant speedups for queries with one-sided histories.

* A handful of code paths have been corrected to check return values
from functions like curl_easy_duphandle(), deflateInit(), lseek(),
dup(), and strbuf_getline_lf(), resolving several Coverity warnings
about unchecked returns.

* The setting of a now-unused member '.pretty_given' in the sequencer
machinery has been removed.


Fixes since v2.55
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@ -638,3 +650,22 @@ Fixes since v2.55
replace outdated terminology, define key terms upfront, and document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).

* The 'pack-objects' and delta-encoding code paths have been updated to
use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned long' for object sizes and offset
limits, avoiding potential truncation issues on 64-bit Windows.
(merge d50ac11724 js/pack-objects-delta-size-t later to maint).

* A client requesting the promisor-remote capability without a value
caused a null pointer dereference, which has been corrected by
rejecting a request without an argument.
(merge dd6b35ff71 en/serve-promisor-remote-fix later to maint).

* Various tests in 't7900-maintenance.sh' have been updated to use a
throwaway repository, and auto-detaching of maintenance tasks is now
disabled for these tests to fix flaky races with concurrent background
maintenance jobs.
(merge 2775d8bcd1 ps/t7900-deflake-maintenance later to maint).

* The help text for the '-l' option of 'git diff' has been updated.
(merge 764243bdf4 en/diff-l-opt-help later to maint).