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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-05-17 22:57:55 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-05-17 22:58:31 +0900
commit68aca6b91299738150f71035d0033af6987fe455 (patch)
treeea814a64ee9d977f5ba3509402d1ef6c15d686c9
parent6d7492cf85448df3da67e0e0a1430270d516e6ec (diff)
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The 3rd batchHEADmastermain
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc35
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc
index ddac906a92..4f25454777 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
to a remote repository are mostly disabled by default, except for
ANSI color escape sequences.
+ * "ort" merge backend improvements.
+
+ * "git checkout -m another-branch" was invented to deal with local
+ changes to paths that are different between the current and the new
+ branch, but it gave only one chance to resolve conflicts. The command
+ was taught to create a stash to save the local changes.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -45,10 +52,6 @@ Fixes since v2.54
* Revert a recent change that introduced a regression to help mksh users.
(merge 8b44deebaf jk/revert-aa-reap-transport-child-processes later to maint).
- * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
- (merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
- (merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).
-
* Update various GitHub Actions versions.
(merge 4a6ed9d09f js/ci-github-actions-update later to maint).
@@ -56,9 +59,27 @@ Fixes since v2.54
test..
(merge b33bea27a2 js/t5564-socks-use-short-path later to maint).
- * Test fix.
- (merge 66ae1a48ec jc/t5551-fix-expensive later to maint).
-
* To help Windows 10 installations, avoid removing files whose
contents are still mmap()'ed.
(merge 4bb086cfa2 js/maintenance-fix-deadlock-on-win10 later to maint).
+
+ * The 'git backfill' command now rejects revision-limiting options that
+ are incompatible with its operation, uses standard documentation for
+ revision ranges, and includes blobs from boundary commits by default
+ to improve performance of subsequent operations.
+ (merge a1ad4a0fca en/backfill-fixes-and-edges later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep" update.
+ (merge 9ff4b5ab1b rs/grep-column-only-match-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Headers from glibc 2.43 when used with clang does not allow
+ disabling C11 language features, causing build failures..
+ (merge 0a6d29090c ps/clang-w-glibc-2.43-and-_Generic later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
+ (merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).
+ (merge 66ae1a48ec jc/t5551-fix-expensive later to maint).
+ (merge ef85286e51 ss/t7004-unhide-git-failures later to maint).
+ (merge 7584d10bc2 mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge 8547908eb3 pw/rename-to-get-current-worktree later to maint).