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Merge branch 'jc/relnotes-updates' 

Wording updates for 2.36 release notes.

* jc/relnotes-updates:
  RelNotes: mention safe.directory
  RelNotes: clarify "bisect run unexecutable" tweak
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Junio C Hamano 2022-04-14 14:17:12 -07:00
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@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ Backward compatibility warts
top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This
behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules.

* With the fixes for CVE-2022-24765 that are common with versions of
Git 2.30.4, 2.31.3, 2.32.2, 2.33.3, 2.34.3, and 2.35.3, Git has
been taught not to recognise repositories owned by other users, in
order to avoid getting affected by their config files and hooks.
You can list the path to the safe/trusted repositories that may be
owned by others on a multi-valued configuration variable
`safe.directory` to override this behaviour, or use '*' to declare
that you trust anything.


Note to those who build from the source

@ -46,10 +55,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

* "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.

* A not-so-common mistake is to write a script to feed "git bisect
run" without making it executable, in which case all tests will
exit with 126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked
as good. Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early.
* A user can forget to make a script file executable before giving
it to "git bisect run". In such a case, all tests will exit with
126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked as good.
Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early.

* When "index-pack" dies due to incoming data exceeding the maximum
allowed input size, include the value of the limit in the error
@ -397,8 +406,6 @@ Fixes since v2.35
entry it moved.
(merge b7f9130a06 vd/mv-refresh-stat later to maint).

* Fix for CVE-2022-24765 has been merged up from 2.35.2 and others.

* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint).
(merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint).