@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
3535 allow the "partialCloneFilter" settings and the "token" value to be
3636 communicated from the server side.
3737
38+ * Declare that "git init" that is not otherwise configured uses
39+ 'main' as the initial branch, not 'master', starting Git 3.0.
40+
41+ * Keep giving hint about the default initial branch name for users
42+ who may be surprised after Git 3.0 switch-over.
43+
44+ * The stash.index configuration variable can be set to make "git stash
45+ pop/apply" pretend that it was invoked with "--index".
46+
3847
3948Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
4049--------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -87,6 +96,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
8796 * "git range-diff" learned a way to limit the memory consumed by
8897 O(N*N) cost matrix.
8998
99+ * Some places in the code confused a variable that is *not* a boolean
100+ to enable color but is an enum that records what the user requested
101+ to do about color. A couple of bugs of this sort have been fixed,
102+ while the code has been cleaned up to prevent similar bugs in the
103+ future.
104+
90105
91106Fixes since v2.51
92107-----------------
@@ -217,6 +232,33 @@ including security updates, are included in this release.
217232 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) did not work correctly when splitting
218233 squashed subtrees, which has been improved.
219234
235+ * Import a newer version of the clar unit testing framework.
236+ (merge 93dbb6b3c5 ps/clar-updates later to maint).
237+
238+ * "git send-email --compose --reply-to=<address>" used to add
239+ duplicated Reply-To: header, which made mailservers unhappy. This
240+ has been corrected.
241+ (merge f448f65719 nb/send-email-no-dup-reply-to later to maint).
242+
243+ * "git rebase -i" failed to clean-up the commit log message when the
244+ command commits the final one in a chain of "fixup" commands, which
245+ has been corrected.
246+ (merge 82a0a73e15 pw/rebase-i-cleanup-fix later to maint).
247+
248+ * There are double frees and leaks around setup_revisions() API used
249+ in "git stash show", which has been fixed, and setup_revisions()
250+ API gained a wrapper to make it more ergonomic when using it with
251+ strvec-manged argc/argv pairs.
252+ (merge a04bc71725 jk/setup-revisions-freefix later to maint).
253+
254+ * Deal more gracefully with directory / file conflicts when the files
255+ backend is used for ref storage, by failing only the ones that are
256+ involved in the conflict while allowing others.
257+ (merge 948b2ab0d8 kn/refs-files-case-insensitive later to maint).
258+
259+ * "git last-modified" operating in non-recursive mode used to trigger
260+ a BUG(), which has been corrected.
261+
220262 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
221263 (merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint).
222264 (merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint).
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