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The 23rd batch 

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2026-09-07 09:31:38 -07:00
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@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to handle * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to handle
the experimental 'git history' command. the experimental 'git history' command.


* 'git checkout' and 'git worktree add' makes guesses based on a name
of a remote-tracking branch, but does not give an error when such a
remote-tracking branch cannot be uniquely identified, which has
been corrected.



Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@ -484,6 +489,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
'struct repository', continuing the libification process and 'struct repository', continuing the libification process and
allowing per-repository control (such as for submodules). allowing per-repository control (such as for submodules).


* The reftable code has been optimized to avoid an unnecessary
stat/reload of the stack when an addition already holds the
list_file lock, reducing the number of newfstatat syscalls from
linear to constant when writing refs.

* The application of the edited patch in 'git add -e' has been
refactored to use the internal apply API directly, avoiding the need
to spawn a 'git apply' subprocess.



Fixes since v2.55 Fixes since v2.55
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@ -748,6 +762,23 @@ Fixes since v2.55
This prevents intended textual URLs from being mangled or mistakenly This prevents intended textual URLs from being mangled or mistakenly
treated as metadata keys. treated as metadata keys.


* The instructions for deprecated commands emitted by
you_still_use_that() have been reworded to clarify that the removal
decision is final and to provide more assertive guidance on finding
a replacement.
(merge 8ace32221c jc/you-still-use-that later to maint).

* The zsh completion script (in 'contrib/') has been updated to
correctly locate the Git command after global options like '-C' by
properly skipping them, similar to how the bash completion does.

* The git worktree repair command failed to rewrite the .git file of
a working tree from a relative path to an absolute path when the
command was run in the working tree itself. The
read_gitfile_gently() function was modified to also return whether
the path originally recorded in the file was absolute, and this new
capability is used to correctly detect such mismatches.

* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 026636128f ss/submittingpatches-typofix later to maint). (merge 026636128f ss/submittingpatches-typofix later to maint).
(merge d2af22cc21 jc/rerere-doc-typofix later to maint). (merge d2af22cc21 jc/rerere-doc-typofix later to maint).