Documentation/RelNotes/2.55.0.adoc

Git v2.55 Release Notes
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UI, Workflows & Features
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 * Hook scripts defined via the configuration system can now be
   configured to run in parallel.

 * The userdiff driver for the Scheme language has been extended to
   cover other Lisp dialects.

 * Terminal control sequences coming over the sideband while talking
   to a remote repository are mostly disabled by default, except for
   ANSI color escape sequences.

 * "ort" merge backend improvements.

 * "git checkout -m another-branch" was invented to deal with local
   changes to paths that are different between the current and the new
   branch, but it gave only one chance to resolve conflicts.  The command
   was taught to create a stash to save the local changes.


Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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 * Promisor remote handling has been refactored and fixed in
   preparation for auto-configuration of advertised remotes.

 * Rust support is enabled by default (but still allows opting out) in
   some future version of Git.


Fixes since v2.54
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 * Code clean-up to use the right instance of a repository instance in
   calls inside refs subsystem.
   (merge 57c590feb9 sp/refs-reduce-the-repository later to maint).

 * The check that implements the logic to see if an in-core cache-tree
   is fully ready to write out a tree object was broken, which has
   been corrected.
   (merge 521731213c dl/cache-tree-fully-valid-fix later to maint).

 * The test suite harness and many individual test scripts have been
   updated to work correctly when 'set -e' is in effect, which helps
   detect misspelled test commands.
   (merge ffe8005b9d ps/test-set-e-clean later to maint).

 * Revert a recent change that introduced a regression to help mksh users.
   (merge 8b44deebaf jk/revert-aa-reap-transport-child-processes later to maint).

 * Update various GitHub Actions versions.
   (merge 4a6ed9d09f js/ci-github-actions-update later to maint).

 * Avoid hitting the pathname limit for socks proxy socket during the
   test..
   (merge b33bea27a2 js/t5564-socks-use-short-path later to maint).

 * To help Windows 10 installations, avoid removing files whose
   contents are still mmap()'ed.
   (merge 4bb086cfa2 js/maintenance-fix-deadlock-on-win10 later to maint).

 * The 'git backfill' command now rejects revision-limiting options that
   are incompatible with its operation, uses standard documentation for
   revision ranges, and includes blobs from boundary commits by default
   to improve performance of subsequent operations.
   (merge a1ad4a0fca en/backfill-fixes-and-edges later to maint).

 * "git grep" update.
   (merge 9ff4b5ab1b rs/grep-column-only-match-fix later to maint).

 * Headers from glibc 2.43 when used with clang does not allow
   disabling C11 language features, causing build failures..
   (merge 0a6d29090c ps/clang-w-glibc-2.43-and-_Generic later to maint).

 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
   (merge 80f4b802e9 ja/doc-difftool-synopsis-style later to maint).
   (merge b96490241e jc/doc-timestamps-in-stat later to maint).
   (merge 66ae1a48ec jc/t5551-fix-expensive later to maint).
   (merge ef85286e51 ss/t7004-unhide-git-failures later to maint).
   (merge 7584d10bc2 mf/format-patch-cover-letter-format-docfix later to maint).
   (merge 8547908eb3 pw/rename-to-get-current-worktree later to maint).