@@ -29,6 +29,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
2929 which gives it the same degree of noisy-ness as the case in which
3030 the command checks out a branch.
3131
32+ * "git quiltimport" learned "--keep-non-patch" option.
33+
34+ * "git worktree remove" and "git worktree move" refused to work when
35+ there is a submodule involved. This has been loosened to ignore
36+ uninitialized submodules.
37+
38+ * "git cherry-pick -m1" was forbidden when picking a non-merge
39+ commit, even though there _is_ parent number 1 for such a commit.
40+ This was done to avoid mistakes back when "cherry-pick" was about
41+ picking a single commit, but is no longer useful with "cherry-pick"
42+ that can pick a range of commits. Now the "-m$num" option is
43+ allowed when picking any commit, as long as $num names an existing
44+ parent of the commit.
45+
46+ * Update "git multimail" from the upstream.
47+
48+ * "git p4" update.
49+
50+ * The "--format=<placeholder>" option of for-each-ref, branch and tag
51+ learned to show a few more traits of objects that can be learned by
52+ the object_info API.
53+
3254
3355Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
3456
@@ -38,6 +60,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
3860 * More codepaths become aware of working with in-core repository
3961 instance other than the default "the_repository".
4062
63+ * The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions.
64+
65+ * Portability updates for the HPE NonStop platform.
66+
67+ * Earlier we added "-Wformat-security" to developer builds, assuming
68+ that "-Wall" (which includes "-Wformat" which in turn is required
69+ to use "-Wformat-security") is always in effect. This is not true
70+ when config.mak.autogen is in use, unfortunately. This has been
71+ fixed by unconditionally adding "-Wall" to developer builds.
72+
73+ * The loose object cache used to optimize existence look-up has been
74+ updated.
75+
76+ * Flaky tests can now be repeatedly run under load with the
77+ "--stress" option.
78+ (merge fb7d1e3ac8 sg/stress-test later to maint).
79+
4180
4281Fixes since v2.20
4382-----------------
@@ -97,6 +136,40 @@ Fixes since v2.20
97136 the --text option is in effect, that is).
98137 (merge e0e7cb8080 tb/log-G-binary later to maint).
99138
139+ * "git submodule update" ought to use a single job unless asked, but
140+ by mistake used multiple jobs, which has been fixed.
141+ (merge e3a9d1aca9 sb/submodule-fetchjobs-default-to-one later to maint).
142+
143+ * "git stripspace" should be usable outside a git repository, but
144+ under the "-s" or "-c" mode, it didn't.
145+ (merge 957da75802 jn/stripspace-wo-repository later to maint).
146+
147+ * Some of the documentation pages formatted incorrectly with
148+ Asciidoctor, which have been fixed.
149+ (merge b62eb1d2f4 ma/asciidoctor later to maint).
150+
151+ * The core.worktree setting in a submodule repository should not be
152+ pointing at a directory when the submodule loses its working tree
153+ (e.g. getting deinit'ed), but the code did not properly maintain
154+ this invariant.
155+
156+ * With zsh, "git cmd path<TAB>" was completed to "git cmd path name"
157+ when the completed path has a special character like SP in it,
158+ without any attempt to keep "path name" a single filename. This
159+ has been fixed to complete it to "git cmd path\ name" just like
160+ Bash completion does.
161+
162+ * The test suite tried to see if it is run under bash, but the check
163+ itself failed under some other implementations of shell (notably
164+ under NetBSD). This has been corrected.
165+ (merge 54ea72f09c sg/test-bash-version-fix later to maint).
166+
167+ * "git gc" and "git repack" did not close the open packfiles that
168+ they found unneeded before removing them, which didn't work on a
169+ platform incapable of removing an open file. This has been
170+ corrected.
171+ (merge 5bdece0d70 js/gc-repack-close-before-remove later to maint).
172+
100173 * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
101174 (merge 89ba9a79ae hb/t0061-dot-in-path-fix later to maint).
102175 (merge d173e799ea sb/diff-color-moved-config-option-fixup later to maint).
@@ -106,3 +179,10 @@ Fixes since v2.20
106179 (merge 112ea42663 fd/gitweb-snapshot-conf-doc-fix later to maint).
107180 (merge 1cadad6f65 tb/use-common-win32-pathfuncs-on-cygwin later to maint).
108181 (merge 57e9dcaa65 km/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint).
182+ (merge b8b4cb27e6 ds/gc-doc-typofix later to maint).
183+ (merge 3b3357626e nd/style-opening-brace later to maint).
184+ (merge b4583d5595 es/doc-worktree-guessremote-config later to maint).
185+ (merge cce99cd8c6 ds/commit-graph-assert-missing-parents later to maint).
186+ (merge 0650614982 cy/completion-typofix later to maint).
187+ (merge 6881925ef5 rs/sha1-file-close-mapped-file-on-error later to maint).
188+ (merge bd8d6f0def en/show-ref-doc-fix later to maint).
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