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The 20th batch 

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2026-08-28 11:04:47 -07:00
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@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
clones, reclaiming space. Guards prevent running during other
operations or if referenced by the index.

* The documentation for 'git format-rev' has been updated to use the
[synopsis] block definition on code blocks to properly highlight
placeholders, and a quoting inconsistency in the running text has
been fixed.


Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@ -343,14 +348,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
positive warning from the 'CHECK_ASSERTION_SIDE_EFFECTS' build with
GCC 15 in the Bloom filter code has also been silenced to facilitate
the image upgrade.
(merge 1a1579c42d jk/ci-static-analysis-image-bump later to maint).

* The alias tests in 't/t0014-alias.sh' have been updated to dynamically
query the list of deprecated commands using 'git
--list-cmds=deprecated' to avoid test failures when running with
'WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES' in a build directory that contains stale
executables of formerly deprecated commands.
(merge bc57ecb915 jk/t0014-dynamic-deprecated-cmds later to maint).

* The code path that deals with relative paths in the diff-lib has
been cleaned up.
@ -389,7 +392,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The 'ssh-agent' tests in 't7528' have been fixed to work when the
user's login shell is csh-like, by explicitly passing '-s' to
'ssh-agent' to force Bourne shell syntax.
(merge d5dd17756d kl/t7528-ssh-agent-for-csh-users later to maint).

* A compatibility wrapper for writev(3p) has been reintroduced,
including fixes for CMake build and 'MAX_IO_SIZE' limits on NonStop.
@ -434,6 +436,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
related callback signatures across several subsystems, simplifying the
API now that trace output no longer uses it.

* A heap-use-after-free bug in the object name parsing code when
reporting failures with a relative path to a sparse directory has
been corrected.


Fixes since v2.55
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