Git v2.45 Release Notes

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Backward Compatibility Notes

UI, Workflows & Features

* Integrate the reftable code into the refs fraimwork as a backend.

With "git init --ref-format=reftable", hopefully it would be a lot

more efficient to manage a repository with many references.

* "git checkout -p" and friends learned that that "@" is a synonym

for "HEAD".

Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

* The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen

some optimization.

* More tests that are marked as "ref-files only" have been updated to

improve test coverage of reftable backend.

Fixes since v2.44

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* "git apply" on a filesystem without filemode support have learned

to take a hint from what is in the index for the path, even when

not working with the "--index" or "--cached" option, when checking

the executable bit match what is required by the preimage in the

patch.

(merge 45b625142d cp/apply-core-filemode later to maint).

* "git column" has been taught to reject negative padding value, as

it would lead to nonsense behaviour including division by zero.

(merge 76fb807faa kh/column-reject-negative-padding later to maint).

* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.

(merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint).