The third batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.0.txt

@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    option of "git rebase" can take its argument as the value of the
    option.
 
+ * The userdiff machinery has been taught that "async def" is another
+   way to begin a "function" in Python.
+
+ * "git range-diff" learned to take the "--notes=<ref>" and the
+   "--no-notes" options to control the commit notes included in the
+   log message that gets compared.
+
+ * "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" run outside of any working tree did
+   not error out, which has been corrected.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -66,6 +76,33 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * Handling of commit objects that use non UTF-8 encoding during
    "rebase -i" has been improved.
 
+ * The beginning of rewriting "git add -i" in C.
+
+ * A label used in the todo list that are generated by "git rebase
+   --rebase-merges" is used as a part of a refname; the logic to come
+   up with the label has been tightened to avoid names that cannot be
+   used as such.
+
+ * The logic to avoid duplicate label names generated by "git rebase
+   --rebase-merges" forgot that the machinery itself uses "onto" as a
+   label name, which must be avoided by auto-generated labels, which
+   has been corrected.
+
+ * We have had compatibility fallback macro definitions for "PRIuMAX",
+   "PRIu32", etc. but did not for "PRIdMAX", while the code used the
+   last one apparently without any hiccup reported recently.  The
+   fallback macro definitions for these <inttypes.h> macros that must
+   appear in C99 systems have been removed.
+
+ * Recently we have declared that GIT_TEST_* variables take the
+   usual boolean values (it used to be that some used "non-empty
+   means true" and taking GIT_TEST_VAR=YesPlease as true); make
+   sure we notice and fail when non-bool strings are given to
+   these variables.
+
+ * Users of oneway_merge() (like "reset --hard") learned to take
+   advantage of fsmonitor to avoid unnecessary lstat(2) calls.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.24
 -----------------
@@ -139,6 +176,45 @@ Fixes since v2.24
    based on end-user input have been corrected.
    (merge a376e37b2c jk/gitweb-anti-xss later to maint).
 
+ * CI jobs for macOS has been made less chatty when updating perforce
+   package used during testing.
+   (merge 0dbc4a0edf jc/azure-ci-osx-fix-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git unpack-objects" used to show progress based only on the number
+   of received and unpacked objects, which stalled when it has to
+   handle an unusually large object.  It now shows the throughput as
+   well.
+   (merge bae60ba7e9 sg/unpack-progress-throughput later to maint).
+
+ * The sequencer machinery compared the HEAD and the state it is
+   attempting to commit to decide if the result would be a no-op
+   commit, even when amending a commit, which was incorrect, and
+   has been corrected.
+
+ * The code to parse GPG output used to assume incorrectly that the
+   finterprint for the primary key would always be present for a valid
+   signature, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 67a6ea6300 hi/gpg-optional-pkfp-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule status" and "git submodule status --cached" show
+   different things, but the documentation did not cover them
+   correctly, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 8d483c8408 mg/doc-submodule-status-cached later to maint).
+
+ * "git reset --patch $object" without any pathspec should allow a
+   tree object to be given, but incorrectly required a committish,
+   which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git submodule status" that is run from a subdirectory of the
+   superproject did not work well, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 1f3aea22c7 mg/submodule-status-from-a-subdirectory later to maint).
+
+ * The revision walking machinery uses resources like per-object flag
+   bits that need to be reset before a new iteration of walking
+   begins, but the resources related to topological walk were not
+   cleared correctly, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 0aa0c2b2ec mh/clear-topo-walk-upon-reset later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 80736d7c5e jc/am-show-current-patch-docfix later to maint).
    (merge 8b656572ca sg/commit-graph-usage-fix later to maint).
@@ -153,3 +229,8 @@ Fixes since v2.24
    (merge 51bd6be32d rs/use-copy-array-in-mingw-shell-command-preparation later to maint).
    (merge b018719927 ma/t7004 later to maint).
    (merge 932757b0cc ar/install-doc-update-cmds-needing-the-shell later to maint).
+   (merge 46efd28be1 ep/guard-kset-tar-headers later to maint).
+   (merge 9e5afdf997 ec/fetch-mark-common-refs-trace2 later to maint).
+   (merge f0e58b3fe8 pb/submodule-update-fetches later to maint).
+   (merge 2a02262078 dl/t5520-cleanup later to maint).
+   (merge a4fb016ba1 js/pkt-line-h-typofix later to maint).