@@ -30,6 +30,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
3030 * The code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
3131 interpreted as a commit-ish has been improved.
3232
33+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
34+ to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
35+ and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
36+ remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
37+ "--remote-submodules" option.
38+
39+ * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
40+ boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
41+ or less equivalent.
42+
43+ * "git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
44+ people).
45+
3346
3447Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
3548
@@ -49,6 +62,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
4962 which is the more recent GCC uses. Those who need to build with an
5063 old GCC can still use "CC_LD_DYNPATH=-R"
5164
65+ * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works
66+ on a range (A..B).
67+
68+ * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
69+ developers has been added.
70+
71+
5272
5373Fixes since v2.22
5474-----------------
@@ -74,4 +94,61 @@ Fixes since v2.22
7494 one (i.e. fast-forward instead), but did not. Which has been
7595 corrected.
7696
97+ * Code cleanup and futureproof.
98+ (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint).
99+
100+ * More parameter validation.
101+ (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint).
102+
103+ * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
104+ output, which has been corrected.
105+ (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint).
106+
107+ * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
108+ value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
109+ use, which has been corrected.
110+ (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint).
111+
112+ * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
113+ if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
114+ (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint).
115+
116+ * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
117+ the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
118+ in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
119+ (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint).
120+
121+ * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
122+ index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
123+ by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
124+ when both options are given.
125+ (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint).
126+
127+ * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
128+ the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
129+ has been corrected.
130+ (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint).
131+
132+ * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
133+ (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint).
134+
135+ * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
136+ "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
137+ broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
138+ (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint).
139+
140+ * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
141+ from in the local repository and in the published repository are
142+ different.
143+ (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint).
144+
145+ * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
146+ recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
147+ hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
148+ to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
149+ (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint).
150+
77151 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
152+ (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint).
153+ (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint).
154+ (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint).
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