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+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.
+
+
+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.
+
+
+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.
+   (merge ece3974ba6 ab/leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * Plug various memory leaks in test-tool commands.
+   (merge f40a693450 ab/test-tool-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * 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.
+   (merge e0ad13977a jc/resolve-undo later to maint).
+
+ * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
+   remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.
+   (merge cb88b37cb9 hx/lookup-commit-in-graph-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "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.
+   (merge daf7898abb jk/clone-unborn-confusion later to maint).
+
+ * 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.
+   (merge ae25974de3 rs/mingw-tighten-mkstemp later to maint).
+
+ * 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.
+   (merge 07aed58017 mb/config-document-include later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.
+   (merge f5adaa5cc3 ds/doc-wo-whitelist later to maint).
+
+ * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
+   osx-keychain (in contrib/).
+   (merge f2fc531585 ld/osx-keychain-usage-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.
+   (merge b4f52f09ae ds/win-syslog-compiler-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
+   CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 4d35f74421 mb/p4-utf16-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge d205483695 kk/p4-client-name-encoding-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign
+   while recreating the throw-away merges.
+   (merge cc391fc886 cl/rerere-train-with-no-sign later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 611c7785e8 mt/checkout-count-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge a700395eaf ma/t4200-update later to maint).
+   (merge ae436f283c ma/sparse-checkout-cone-doc-fix later to maint).
+   (merge a10f6e2bda sg/index-format-doc-update later to maint).
+   (merge ce5f07983d mt/pkt-line-comment-tweak later to maint).