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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-02-27 14:19:13 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-02-27 15:11:55 -0800
commit2cc71917514657b93014134350864f4849edfc83 (patch)
treef6236f61d2b953359bc085d1162ddee978725b90
parente417bf2996fbd77acabbf354ed9b5adedacf91c9 (diff)
downloadgit-2cc71917514657b93014134350864f4849edfc83.tar.xz
The 8th batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc31
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
index 9988979772..7c8c2fa466 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git history" history rewriting (experimental) command has been
added.
-
* "git replay" is taught to drop commits that become empty (not the
ones that are empty in the original).
@@ -32,6 +31,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Command line completion (in contrib/) update for
"stash import/export".
+ * "git repo info" learns "--keys" action to list known keys.
+
+ * Extend the alias configuration syntax to allow aliases using
+ characters outside ASCII alphanumeric (plus '-').
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
--------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -76,6 +80,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
already do on Linux and Windows. Also adjust the way Windows
implementation reports this information to match the other two.
+ * A handful of places used refs_for_each_ref_in() API incorrectly,
+ which has been corrected.
+
+ * Some tests assumed "iconv" is available without honoring ICONV
+ prerequisite, which has been corrected.
+
Fixes since v2.53
-----------------
@@ -130,6 +140,21 @@ Fixes since v2.53
been fixed.
(merge f4eff7116d ps/pack-concat-wo-backfill later to maint).
+ * "git switch <name>", in an attempt to create a local branch <name>
+ after a remote tracking branch of the same name gave an advise
+ message to disambiguate using "git checkout", which has been
+ updated to use "git switch".
+ (merge 12fee11f21 jc/checkout-switch-restore later to maint).
+
+ * It does not make much sense to apply the "incomplete-line"
+ whitespace rule to symbolic links, whose contents almost always
+ lack the final newline. "git apply" and "git diff" are now taught
+ to exclude them for a change to symbolic links.
+ (merge 6a41481c6d jc/whitespace-incomplete-line later to maint).
+
+ * "git format-patch --from=<me>" did not honor the command line
+ option when writing out the cover letter, which has been corrected.
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).
@@ -151,3 +176,7 @@ Fixes since v2.53
(merge 2668b6bdc4 jc/doc-rerere-update later to maint).
(merge 2f99f50f2d jc/doc-cg-c-comment later to maint).
(merge a454cdca42 kh/doc-am-format-sendmail later to maint).
+ (merge 8b0061b5c5 jk/ref-filter-lrstrip-optim later to maint).
+ (merge 5133837392 ps/ci-gitlab-msvc-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 143e84958c db/doc-fetch-jobs-auto later to maint).
+ (merge 0678e01f02 ap/use-test-seq-f-more later to maint).