Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.50.0-rc0-61-gb07857

Author: gitster

RelNotes/2.50.0.adoc

@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    check, which can be useful when the repository arranges to ensure
    connectivity by some other means.
 
+ * "git notes --help" documentation updates.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -100,7 +102,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * "git fsck" becomes more careful when checking the refs.
 
  * "git fast-export | git fast-import" learns to deal with commit and
-   tag objects with embedded signatures a bit better.
+   tag objects with embedded signatures a bit better.  This is highly
+   experimental and the format of the data stream may change in the
+   future without compatibility guarantees.
 
  * The code paths to check whether a refname X is available (by seeing
    if another ref X/Y exists, etc.) have been optimized.
@@ -193,6 +197,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    do not pass the leak checker tests, as they should no longer be
    needed.
 
+ * When a stale .midx file refers to .pack files that no longer exist,
+   we ended up checking for these non-existent files repeatedly, which
+   has been optimized by memoizing the non-existence.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.49
 -----------------
@@ -355,6 +363,22 @@ Fixes since v2.49
    expand sparse-index while working.
    (merge ecf9ba20e3 ds/sparse-apply-add-p later to maint).
 
+ * Avoid adding directory path to a sparse-index tree entries to the
+   name-hash, since they would bloat the hashtable without anybody
+   querying for them.  This was done already for a single threaded
+   part of the code, but now the multi-threaded code also does the
+   same.
+   (merge 2e60aabc75 am/sparse-index-name-hash-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of Perl started warning against "! A =~ /pattern/"
+   which does not negate the result of the matching.  As it turns out
+   that the problematic function is not even called, it was removed.
+   (merge 67cae845d2 op/cvsserver-perl-warning later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply --index/--cached" when applying a deletion patch in
+   reverse failed to give the mode bits of the path "removed" by the
+   patch to the file it creates, which has been corrected.
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 227c4f33a0 ja/doc-block-delimiter-markup-fix later to maint).
    (merge 2bfd3b3685 ab/decorate-code-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -387,3 +411,4 @@ Fixes since v2.49
    (merge 91db6c735d ly/reftable-writer-leakfix later to maint).
    (merge 20e4e9ad0b jc/doc-synopsis-option-markup later to maint).
    (merge cddcee7f64 es/meson-configure-build-options-fix later to maint).
+   (merge cea9f55f00 wk/sparse-checkout-doc-fix later to maint).

git-am.html

@@ -599,8 +599,8 @@ <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 am.threeWay configuration variable. For more information,
 see am.threeWay in <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>.</p>
 </dd>
-<dt class="hdlist1">--rerere-autoupdate</dt>
-<dt class="hdlist1">--no-rerere-autoupdate</dt>
+<dt class="hdlist1"><code>--rerere-autoupdate</code></dt>
+<dt class="hdlist1"><code>--no-rerere-autoupdate</code></dt>
 <dd>
 <p>After the rerere mechanism reuses a recorded resolution on
 the current conflict to update the files in the working