Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt - jrn/git - Git at Google

 Git v2.38 Release Notes
 =======================

 UI, Workflows & Features

  * "git remote show [-n] frotz" now pays attention to negative
    pathspec.

  * "git push" sometimes perform poorly when reachability bitmaps are
    used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by
    bitmaps.  The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced
    to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push".

  * "git grep -m<max-hits>" is a way to limit the hits shown per file.

  * "git merge-tree" learned a new mode where it takes two commits and
    computes a tree that would result in the merge commit, if the
    histories leading to these two commits were to be merged.

  * "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to
    move a path between directories that are "in cone" (i.e. expected
    to be materialized in the working tree) and "out of cone"
    (i.e. expected to be hidden).  The handling of such cases has been
    improved.

  * Earlier, HTTP transport clients learned to tell the server side
    what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but
    this was done only for some requests but not others.

  * Introduce a discovery.barerepository configuration variable that
    allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories.

  * Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been
    tweaked.

  * "git rebase -i" learns to update branches whose tip appear in the
    rebased range with "--update-refs" option.

  * "git ls-files" learns the "--format" option to tweak its output.

  * "git cat-file" learned an option to use the mailmap when showing
    commit and tag objects.

  * When "git merge" finds that it cannot perform a merge, it should
    restore the working tree to the state before the command was
    initiated, but in some corner cases it didn't.

  * Operating modes like "--batch" of "git cat-file" command learned to
    take NUL-terminated input, instead of one-item-per-line.

  * "git rm" has become more aware of the sparse-index feature.

  * "git rev-list --disk-usage" learned to take an optional value
    "human" to show the reported value in human-readable format, like
    "3.40MiB".

  * The "diagnose" feature to create a zip archive for diagnostic
    material has been lifted from "scalar" and made into a feature of
    "git bugreport".

  * The namespaces used by "log --decorate" from "refs/" hierarchy by
    default has been tightened.

  * "git rev-list --ancestry-path=C A..B" is a natural extension of
    "git rev-list A..B"; instead of choosing a subset of A..B to those
    that have ancestry relationship with A, it lets a subset with
    ancestry relationship with C.

  * "scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
    when able.

  * The bash prompt (in contrib/) learned to optionally indicate when
    the index is unmerged.

  * "git clone" command learned the "--bundle-uri" option to coordinate
    with hosting sites the use of pre-prepared bundle files.

  * "git range-diff" learned to honor pathspec argument if given.

  * "git format-patch --from=<ident>" can be told to add an in-body
    "From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given
    <ident> with "--force-in-body-from"option.

  * The built-in fsmonitor refuses to work on a network mounted
    repositories; a configuration knob for users to override this has
    been introduced.


 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

  * Collection of what is referenced by objects in promisor packs have
    been optimized to inspect these objects in the in-pack order.

  * Introduce a helper to see if a branch is already being worked on
    (hence should not be newly checked out in a working tree), which
    performs much better than the existing find_shared_symref() to
    replace many uses of the latter.

  * Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then by default) avoid
    spawning an external "gzip" process when creating ".tar.gz" (and
    ".tgz") archives.

  * Allow large objects read from a packstream to be streamed into a
    loose object file straight, without having to keep it in-core as a
    whole.

  * Further preparation to turn git-submodule.sh into a builtin
    continues.

  * Apply Coccinelle rule to turn raw memmove() into MOVE_ARRAY() cpp
    macro, which would improve maintainability and readability.

  * Teach "make all" to build gitweb as well.

  * Tweak tests so that they still work when the "git init" template
    did not create .git/info directory.

  * Add Coccinelle rules to detect the pattern of initializing and then
    finalizing a structure without using it in between at all, which
    happens after code restructuring and the compilers fail to
    recognize as an unused variable.

  * The code to convert between GPG trust level strings and internal
    constants we use to represent them have been cleaned up.

  * Support for libnettle as SHA256 implementation has been added.

  * The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved.

  * A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
    macro has been improved.

  * API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser.

  * Omit fsync-related trace2 entries when their values are all zero.

  * The codepath to write multi-pack index has been taught to release a
    large chunk of memory that holds an array of objects in the packs,
    as soon as it is done with the array, to reduce memory consumption.

  * Add a level of redirection to array allocation API in xdiff part,
    to make it easier to share with the libgit2 project.

  * "git fetch" client logs the partial clone filter used in the trace2
    output.

  * The "bundle URI" design gets documented.

  * The common ancestor negotiation exchange during a "git fetch"
    session now leaves trace log.

  * Test portability improvements.
    (merge 4d1d843be7 mt/rot13-in-c later to maint).

  * The "subcommand" mode is introduced to parse-options API and update
    the command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.

  * The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
    locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.

  * The assembly version of SHA-1 implementation for PPC has been
    removed.

  * The server side that responds to "git fetch" and "git clone"
    request has been optimized by allowing it to send objects in its
    object store without recomputing and validating the object names.

  * Annotate function parameters that are not used (but cannot be
    removed for structural reasons), to prepare us to later compile
    with -Wunused warning turned on.

  * Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
    <subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".


 Fixes since v2.37
 -----------------

  * Rewrite of "git add -i" in C that appeared in Git 2.25 didn't
    correctly record a removed file to the index, which was fixed.

  * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is
    shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature.

  * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
    add some missing information to the documentation.

  * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in
    its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc.

  * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from
    the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose
    of creating the tree object(s) from its input.

  * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in
    front of these messages.

  * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
    documentation mark-up have been corrected.

  * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the
    core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has
    a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days.

  * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
    against different end-user vim settings.

  * Plug various memory leaks, both in the main code and in test-tool
    commands.

  * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
    the merge-ort strategy.

  * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
    GC, which has been corrected.

  * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
    remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.

  * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
    did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
    has been corrected.

  * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
    at a bogus place, which as been corrected.

  * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool"

  * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable,
    which shouldn't have.  Fixed.

  * A fix for a regression in test framework.

  * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved.

  * Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
    "git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
    line completion to include them in its offerings.

  * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.

  * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
    osx-keychain (in contrib/).

  * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.

  * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
    CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.

  * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been
    corrected.

  * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign
    while recreating the throw-away merges.

  * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been
    corrected.

  * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a
    non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37.

  * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information
    in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected.

  * Gitweb had legacy URL shortener that is specific to the way
    projects hosted on kernel.org used to (but no longer) work, which
    has been removed.

  * Fix build procedure for Windows that uses CMake so that it can pick
    up the shell interpreter from local installation location.

  * Conditionally allow building Python interpreter on Windows

  * Fix to lstat() emulation on Windows.

  * Older gcc with -Wall complains about the universal zero initializer
    "struct s = { 0 };" idiom, which makes developers' lives
    inconvenient (as -Werror is enabled by DEVELOPER=YesPlease).  The
    build procedure has been tweaked to help these compilers.

  * Plug memory leaks in the failure code path in the "merge-ort" merge
    strategy backend.

  * "git symbolic-ref symref non..sen..se" is now diagnosed as an error.

  * A follow-up fix to a fix for a regression in 2.36 around hooks.

  * Avoid repeatedly running getconf to ask libc version in the test
    suite, and instead just as it once per script.

  * Platform-specific code that determines if a directory is OK to use
    as a repository has been taught to report more details, especially
    on Windows.

  * "vimdiff3" regression fix.

  * "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode
    before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has
    hid broken tree objects from the checking logic.  This has been
    corrected, but to help exiting projects with broken tree objects
    that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this
    code detects has been demoted to "info" for now.

  * Fixes to sparse index compatibility work for "reset" and "checkout"
    commands.

  * An earlier optimization discarded a tree-object buffer that is
    still in use, which has been corrected.
    (merge 1490d7d82d jk/is-promisor-object-keep-tree-in-use later to maint).

  * Fix deadlocks between main Git process and subprocess spawned via
    the pipe_command() API, that can kill "git add -p" that was
    reimplemented in C recently.
    (merge 716c1f649e jk/pipe-command-nonblock later to maint).

  * The sequencer machinery translated messages left in the reflog by
    mistake, which has been corrected.

  * xcalloc(), imitating calloc(), takes "number of elements of the
    array", and "size of a single element", in this order.  A call that
    does not follow this ordering has been corrected.
    (merge c4bbd9bb8f sg/xcalloc-cocci-fix later to maint).

  * The preload-index codepath made copies of pathspec to give to
    multiple threads, which were left leaked.
    (merge 23578904da ad/preload-plug-memleak later to maint).

  * Update the version of Ubuntu used for GitHub Actions CI from 18.04
    to 22.04.
    (merge ef46584831 ds/github-actions-use-newer-ubuntu later to maint).

  * The auto-stashed local changes created by "git merge --autostash"
    was mixed into a conflicted state left in the working tree, which
    has been corrected.
    (merge d3a9295ada en/merge-unstash-only-on-clean-merge later to maint).

  * Multi-pack index got corrupted when preferred pack changed from one
    pack to another in a certain way, which has been corrected.
    (merge 99e4d084ff tb/midx-with-changing-preferred-pack-fix later to maint).

  * The clean-up of temporary files created via mks_tempfile_dt() was
    racy and attempted to unlink() the leading directory when signals
    are involved, which has been corrected.
    (merge babe2e0559 rs/tempfile-cleanup-race-fix later to maint).

  * FreeBSD portability fix for "git maintenance" that spawns "crontab"
    to schedule tasks.
    (merge ee69e7884e bc/gc-crontab-fix later to maint).

  * Those who use diff-so-fancy as the diff-filter noticed a regression
    or two in the code that parses the diff output in the built-in
    version of "add -p", which has been corrected.
    (merge 0a101676e5 js/add-p-diff-parsing-fix later to maint).

  * Segfault fix-up to an earlier fix to the topic to teach "git reset"
    and "git checkout" work better in a sparse checkout.
    (merge 037f8ea6d9 vd/sparse-reset-checkout-fixes later to maint).

  * "git diff --no-index A B" managed its the pathnames of its two
    input files rather haphazardly, sometimes leaking them.  The
    command line argument processing has been straightened out to clean
    it up.
    (merge 2b43dd0eb5 rs/diff-no-index-cleanup later to maint).

  * "git rev-list --verify-objects" ought to inspect the contents of
    objects and notice corrupted ones, but it didn't when the commit
    graph is in use, which has been corrected.
    (merge b27ccae34b jk/rev-list-verify-objects-fix later to maint).

  * More fixes to "add -p"
    (merge 64ec8efb83 js/builtin-add-p-portability-fix later to maint).

  * The parser in the script interface to parse-options in "git
    rev-parse" has been updated to diagnose a bogus input correctly.
    (merge f20b9c36d0 ow/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).

  * The code that manages list-object-filter structure, used in partial
    clones, leaked the instances, which has been plugged.
    (merge 66eede4a37 jk/plug-list-object-filter-leaks later to maint).

  * Fix another UI regression in the reimplemented "add -p".
    (merge f6f0ee247f rs/add-p-worktree-mode-prompt-fix later to maint).

  * "git fetch" over protocol v2 sent an incorrect ref prefix request
    to the server and made "git pull" with configured fetch refspec
    that does not cover the remote branch to merge with fail, which has
    been corrected.
    (merge 49ca2fba39 jk/proto-v2-ref-prefix-fix later to maint).

  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 77b9e85c0f vd/fix-perf-tests later to maint).
    (merge 0682bc43f5 jk/test-crontab-fixes later to maint).
    (merge b46dd1726c cc/doc-trailer-whitespace-rules later to maint).
	Git v2.38 Release Notes
	=======================

	UI, Workflows & Features

	* "git remote show [-n] frotz" now pays attention to negative
	pathspec.

	* "git push" sometimes perform poorly when reachability bitmaps are
	used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by
	bitmaps. The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced
	to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push".

	* "git grep -m<max-hits>" is a way to limit the hits shown per file.

	* "git merge-tree" learned a new mode where it takes two commits and
	computes a tree that would result in the merge commit, if the
	histories leading to these two commits were to be merged.

	* "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to
	move a path between directories that are "in cone" (i.e. expected
	to be materialized in the working tree) and "out of cone"
	(i.e. expected to be hidden). The handling of such cases has been
	improved.

	* Earlier, HTTP transport clients learned to tell the server side
	what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but
	this was done only for some requests but not others.

	* Introduce a discovery.barerepository configuration variable that
	allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories.

	* Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been
	tweaked.

	* "git rebase -i" learns to update branches whose tip appear in the
	rebased range with "--update-refs" option.

	* "git ls-files" learns the "--format" option to tweak its output.

	* "git cat-file" learned an option to use the mailmap when showing
	commit and tag objects.

	* When "git merge" finds that it cannot perform a merge, it should
	restore the working tree to the state before the command was
	initiated, but in some corner cases it didn't.

	* Operating modes like "--batch" of "git cat-file" command learned to
	take NUL-terminated input, instead of one-item-per-line.

	* "git rm" has become more aware of the sparse-index feature.

	* "git rev-list --disk-usage" learned to take an optional value
	"human" to show the reported value in human-readable format, like
	"3.40MiB".

	* The "diagnose" feature to create a zip archive for diagnostic
	material has been lifted from "scalar" and made into a feature of
	"git bugreport".

	* The namespaces used by "log --decorate" from "refs/" hierarchy by
	default has been tightened.

	* "git rev-list --ancestry-path=C A..B" is a natural extension of
	"git rev-list A..B"; instead of choosing a subset of A..B to those
	that have ancestry relationship with A, it lets a subset with
	ancestry relationship with C.

	* "scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
	when able.

	* The bash prompt (in contrib/) learned to optionally indicate when
	the index is unmerged.

	* "git clone" command learned the "--bundle-uri" option to coordinate
	with hosting sites the use of pre-prepared bundle files.

	* "git range-diff" learned to honor pathspec argument if given.

	* "git format-patch --from=<ident>" can be told to add an in-body
	"From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given
	<ident> with "--force-in-body-from"option.

	* The built-in fsmonitor refuses to work on a network mounted
	repositories; a configuration knob for users to override this has
	been introduced.


	Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

	* Collection of what is referenced by objects in promisor packs have
	been optimized to inspect these objects in the in-pack order.

	* Introduce a helper to see if a branch is already being worked on
	(hence should not be newly checked out in a working tree), which
	performs much better than the existing find_shared_symref() to
	replace many uses of the latter.

	* Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then by default) avoid
	spawning an external "gzip" process when creating ".tar.gz" (and
	".tgz") archives.

	* Allow large objects read from a packstream to be streamed into a
	loose object file straight, without having to keep it in-core as a
	whole.

	* Further preparation to turn git-submodule.sh into a builtin
	continues.

	* Apply Coccinelle rule to turn raw memmove() into MOVE_ARRAY() cpp
	macro, which would improve maintainability and readability.

	* Teach "make all" to build gitweb as well.

	* Tweak tests so that they still work when the "git init" template
	did not create .git/info directory.

	* Add Coccinelle rules to detect the pattern of initializing and then
	finalizing a structure without using it in between at all, which
	happens after code restructuring and the compilers fail to
	recognize as an unused variable.

	* The code to convert between GPG trust level strings and internal
	constants we use to represent them have been cleaned up.

	* Support for libnettle as SHA256 implementation has been added.

	* The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved.

	* A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
	macro has been improved.

	* API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser.

	* Omit fsync-related trace2 entries when their values are all zero.

	* The codepath to write multi-pack index has been taught to release a
	large chunk of memory that holds an array of objects in the packs,
	as soon as it is done with the array, to reduce memory consumption.

	* Add a level of redirection to array allocation API in xdiff part,
	to make it easier to share with the libgit2 project.

	* "git fetch" client logs the partial clone filter used in the trace2
	output.

	* The "bundle URI" design gets documented.

	* The common ancestor negotiation exchange during a "git fetch"
	session now leaves trace log.

	* Test portability improvements.
	(merge 4d1d843be7 mt/rot13-in-c later to maint).

	* The "subcommand" mode is introduced to parse-options API and update
	the command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.

	* The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
	locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.

	* The assembly version of SHA-1 implementation for PPC has been
	removed.

	* The server side that responds to "git fetch" and "git clone"
	request has been optimized by allowing it to send objects in its
	object store without recomputing and validating the object names.

	* Annotate function parameters that are not used (but cannot be
	removed for structural reasons), to prepare us to later compile
	with -Wunused warning turned on.

	* Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
	<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".


	Fixes since v2.37
	-----------------

	* Rewrite of "git add -i" in C that appeared in Git 2.25 didn't
	correctly record a removed file to the index, which was fixed.

	* Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is
	shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature.

	* Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
	add some missing information to the documentation.

	* Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in
	its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc.

	* "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from
	the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose
	of creating the tree object(s) from its input.

	* Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in
	front of these messages.

	* References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
	documentation mark-up have been corrected.

	* In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the
	core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has
	a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days.

	* Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
	against different end-user vim settings.

	* Plug various memory leaks, both in the main code and in test-tool
	commands.

	* Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
	the merge-ort strategy.

	* The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
	GC, which has been corrected.

	* A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
	remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.

	* "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
	did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
	has been corrected.

	* An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
	at a bogus place, which as been corrected.

	* Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool"

	* "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable,
	which shouldn't have. Fixed.

	* A fix for a regression in test framework.

	* mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved.

	* Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
	"git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
	line completion to include them in its offerings.

	* Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.

	* Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
	osx-keychain (in contrib/).

	* Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.

	* "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
	CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.

	* "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been
	corrected.

	* "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign
	while recreating the throw-away merges.

	* "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been
	corrected.

	* Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a
	non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37.

	* There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information
	in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected.

	* Gitweb had legacy URL shortener that is specific to the way
	projects hosted on kernel.org used to (but no longer) work, which
	has been removed.

	* Fix build procedure for Windows that uses CMake so that it can pick
	up the shell interpreter from local installation location.

	* Conditionally allow building Python interpreter on Windows

	* Fix to lstat() emulation on Windows.

	* Older gcc with -Wall complains about the universal zero initializer
	"struct s = { 0 };" idiom, which makes developers' lives
	inconvenient (as -Werror is enabled by DEVELOPER=YesPlease). The
	build procedure has been tweaked to help these compilers.

	* Plug memory leaks in the failure code path in the "merge-ort" merge
	strategy backend.

	* "git symbolic-ref symref non..sen..se" is now diagnosed as an error.

	* A follow-up fix to a fix for a regression in 2.36 around hooks.

	* Avoid repeatedly running getconf to ask libc version in the test
	suite, and instead just as it once per script.

	* Platform-specific code that determines if a directory is OK to use
	as a repository has been taught to report more details, especially
	on Windows.

	* "vimdiff3" regression fix.

	* "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode
	before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has
	hid broken tree objects from the checking logic. This has been
	corrected, but to help exiting projects with broken tree objects
	that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this
	code detects has been demoted to "info" for now.

	* Fixes to sparse index compatibility work for "reset" and "checkout"
	commands.

	* An earlier optimization discarded a tree-object buffer that is
	still in use, which has been corrected.
	(merge 1490d7d82d jk/is-promisor-object-keep-tree-in-use later to maint).

	* Fix deadlocks between main Git process and subprocess spawned via
	the pipe_command() API, that can kill "git add -p" that was
	reimplemented in C recently.
	(merge 716c1f649e jk/pipe-command-nonblock later to maint).

	* The sequencer machinery translated messages left in the reflog by
	mistake, which has been corrected.

	* xcalloc(), imitating calloc(), takes "number of elements of the
	array", and "size of a single element", in this order. A call that
	does not follow this ordering has been corrected.
	(merge c4bbd9bb8f sg/xcalloc-cocci-fix later to maint).

	* The preload-index codepath made copies of pathspec to give to
	multiple threads, which were left leaked.
	(merge 23578904da ad/preload-plug-memleak later to maint).

	* Update the version of Ubuntu used for GitHub Actions CI from 18.04
	to 22.04.
	(merge ef46584831 ds/github-actions-use-newer-ubuntu later to maint).

	* The auto-stashed local changes created by "git merge --autostash"
	was mixed into a conflicted state left in the working tree, which
	has been corrected.
	(merge d3a9295ada en/merge-unstash-only-on-clean-merge later to maint).

	* Multi-pack index got corrupted when preferred pack changed from one
	pack to another in a certain way, which has been corrected.
	(merge 99e4d084ff tb/midx-with-changing-preferred-pack-fix later to maint).

	* The clean-up of temporary files created via mks_tempfile_dt() was
	racy and attempted to unlink() the leading directory when signals
	are involved, which has been corrected.
	(merge babe2e0559 rs/tempfile-cleanup-race-fix later to maint).

	* FreeBSD portability fix for "git maintenance" that spawns "crontab"
	to schedule tasks.
	(merge ee69e7884e bc/gc-crontab-fix later to maint).

	* Those who use diff-so-fancy as the diff-filter noticed a regression
	or two in the code that parses the diff output in the built-in
	version of "add -p", which has been corrected.
	(merge 0a101676e5 js/add-p-diff-parsing-fix later to maint).

	* Segfault fix-up to an earlier fix to the topic to teach "git reset"
	and "git checkout" work better in a sparse checkout.
	(merge 037f8ea6d9 vd/sparse-reset-checkout-fixes later to maint).

	* "git diff --no-index A B" managed its the pathnames of its two
	input files rather haphazardly, sometimes leaking them. The
	command line argument processing has been straightened out to clean
	it up.
	(merge 2b43dd0eb5 rs/diff-no-index-cleanup later to maint).

	* "git rev-list --verify-objects" ought to inspect the contents of
	objects and notice corrupted ones, but it didn't when the commit
	graph is in use, which has been corrected.
	(merge b27ccae34b jk/rev-list-verify-objects-fix later to maint).

	* More fixes to "add -p"
	(merge 64ec8efb83 js/builtin-add-p-portability-fix later to maint).

	* The parser in the script interface to parse-options in "git
	rev-parse" has been updated to diagnose a bogus input correctly.
	(merge f20b9c36d0 ow/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).

	* The code that manages list-object-filter structure, used in partial
	clones, leaked the instances, which has been plugged.
	(merge 66eede4a37 jk/plug-list-object-filter-leaks later to maint).

	* Fix another UI regression in the reimplemented "add -p".
	(merge f6f0ee247f rs/add-p-worktree-mode-prompt-fix later to maint).

	* "git fetch" over protocol v2 sent an incorrect ref prefix request
	to the server and made "git pull" with configured fetch refspec
	that does not cover the remote branch to merge with fail, which has
	been corrected.
	(merge 49ca2fba39 jk/proto-v2-ref-prefix-fix later to maint).

	* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
	(merge 77b9e85c0f vd/fix-perf-tests later to maint).
	(merge 0682bc43f5 jk/test-crontab-fixes later to maint).
	(merge b46dd1726c cc/doc-trailer-whitespace-rules later to maint).