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+Git v2.41 Release Notes
+=======================
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Allow information carried on the WWW-AUthenticate header to be
+   passed to the credential helpers.
+
+ * A new "fetch.hideRefs" option can be used to exclude specified refs
+   from "rev-list --objects --stdin --not --all" traversal for
+   checking object connectivity, most useful when there are many
+   unrelated histories in a single repository.
+
+ * "git push" has been taught to allow deletion of refs with one-level
+   names to help repairing a repository who acquired such a ref by
+   mistake.  In general, we don't encourage use of such a ref, and
+   creation or update to such a ref is rejected as before.
+
+ * Allow "git bisect reset" to check out the original branch when the
+   branch is already checked out in a different worktree linked to the
+   same repository.
+
+ * A few subcommands have been taught to stop users from working on a
+   branch that is being used in another worktree linked to the same
+   repository.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned to write a log-message only output file
+   for empty commits.
+
+ * "git format-patch" honors the src/dst prefixes set to nonstandard
+   values with configuration variables like "diff.noprefix", causing
+   receiving end of the patch that expects the standard -p1 format to
+   break.  "format-patch" has been taught to ignore end-user configuration
+   and always use the standard prefixes.
+
+   This is a backward compatibility breaking change.
+
+ * Lift the limitation that colored prompts can only be used with
+   PROMPT_COMMAND mode.
+
+ * "git blame --contents=<file> <rev> -- <path>" used to be forbidden,
+   but now it finds the origins of lines starting at <file> contents
+   through the history that leads to <rev>.
+
+ * "git pack-redundant" gave a warning when run, as the command has
+   outlived its usefulness long ago and is nominated for future
+   removal.  Now we escalate to give an error.
+
+ * "git clone" from an empty repository learned to propagate the
+   choice of the hash algorithm from the source repository to the
+   newly created repository.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Code clean-up to clarify directory traversal API.
+
+ * Code clean-up to clarify the rule that "git-compat-util.h" must be
+   the first to be included.
+
+ * More work towards -Wunused.
+
+ * Instead of forcing each command to choose to honor GPG related
+   configuration variables, make the subsystem lazily initialize
+   itself.
+
+ * Remove workaround for ancient versions of DocBook to make it work
+   correctly with groff, which has not been necessary since docbook
+   1.76 from 2010.
+
+ * Code clean-up to include and/or uninclude parse-options.h file as
+   needed.
+
+ * The code path that reports what "git fetch" did to each ref has
+   been cleaned up.
+
+ * Assorted config API updates.
+
+ * A few configuration variables to tell the cURL library that
+   different types of ssl-cert and ssl-key are in use have been added.
+
+ * Split key function and data structure definitions out of cache.h to
+   new header files and adjust the users.
+
+ * "git fetch --all" does not have to download and handle the same
+   bundleURI over and over, which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git sparse-checkout" command learns a debugging aid for the sparse
+   rule definitions.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.40
+-----------------
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to check the index files in other worktrees,
+   just like "git gc" honors them as anchoring points.
+   (merge 8d3e7eac52 jk/fsck-indices-in-worktrees later to maint).
+
+ * Fix a segfaulting loop.  The function and its caller may need
+   further clean-up.
+   (merge c5773dc078 ew/commit-reach-clean-up-flags-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git restore" supports options like "--ours" that are only
+   meaningful during a conflicted merge, but these options are only
+   meaningful when updating the working tree files.  These options are
+   marked to be incompatible when both "--staged" and "--worktree" are
+   in effect.
+   (merge ee8a88826a ak/restore-both-incompatible-with-conflicts later to maint).
+
+ * Simplify UI to control progress meter given by "git bundle" command.
+   (merge 8b95521edb jk/bundle-progress later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle" learned that "-" is a common way to say that the input
+   comes from the standard input and/or the output goes to the
+   standard output.  It used to work only for output and only from the
+   root level of the working tree.
+   (merge 0bbe10313e jk/bundle-use-dash-for-stdfiles later to maint).
+
+ * Once we start running, we assumed that the list of alternate object
+   databases would never change.  Hook into the machinery used to
+   update the list of packfiles during runtime to update this list as
+   well.
+   (merge e2d003dbed ds/reprepare-alternates-when-repreparing-packfiles later to maint).
+
+ * The code to parse "git rebase -X<opt>" was not prepared to see an
+   unparsable option string, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 15a4cc912e ab/fix-strategy-opts-parsing later to maint).
+
+ * "git add -p" while the index is unmerged sometimes failed to parse
+   the diff output it internally produces and died, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 28d1122f9c jk/add-p-unmerged-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Fix for a "ls-files --format="%(path)" that produced nonsense
+   output, which was a bug in 2.38.
+   (merge cfb62dd006 aj/ls-files-format-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git receive-pack" that responds to "git push" requests failed to
+   clean a stale lockfile when killed in the middle, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge c55c30669c ps/receive-pack-unlock-before-die later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-parse --quiet foo@{u}", or anything that asks @{u} to be
+   parsed with GET_OID_QUIETLY option, did not quietly fail, which has
+   been corrected.
+   (merge dfbfdc521d fc/oid-quietly-parse-upstream later to maint).
+
+ * Transports that do not support protocol v2 did not correctly fall
+   back to protocol v0 under certain conditions, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge eaa0fd6584 jk/fix-proto-downgrade-to-v0 later to maint).
+
+ * time(2) on glib 2.31+, especially on Linux, goes out of sync with
+   higher resolution timers used for gettimeofday(2) and by the
+   filesystem.  Replace all calls to it with a git_time() wrapper and
+   (merge 370ddcbc89 pe/time-use-gettimeofday later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to use designated initializers in parse-options API.
+   (merge 353e6d4554 sg/parse-options-h-initializers later to maint).
+
+ * A recent-ish change to allow unicode character classes to be used
+   with "grep -P" triggered a JIT bug in older pcre2 libraries.
+   The problematic change in Git built with these older libraries has
+   been disabled to work around the bug.
+   (merge 14b9a04479 mk/workaround-pcre-jit-ucp-bug later to maint).
+
+ * The wildmatch library code unlearns exponential behaviour it
+   acquired some time ago since it was borrowed from rsync.
+   (merge 3dc0b7f0dc pw/wildmatch-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * The index files can become corrupt under certain conditions when
+   the split-index feature is in use, especially together with
+   fsmonitor, which have been corrected.
+   (merge 061dd722dc js/split-index-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Document what the pathname-looking strings in "rev-list --object"
+   output are for and what they mean.
+   (merge 15364d2a3c jk/document-rev-list-object-name later to maint).
+
+ * Fix unnecessary truncation of generation numbers used in-core.
+   (merge d3af1c193d ps/ahead-behind-truncation-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up around the use of the_repository.
+   (merge 4a93b899c1 ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository later to maint).
+
+ * Consistently spell "Message-ID" as such, not "Message-Id".
+   (merge ba4324c4e1 jc/spell-id-in-both-caps-in-message-id later to maint).
+
+ * Correct use of an uninitialized structure member.
+   (merge dc12ee77ab jx/cap-object-info-uninitialized-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Tests had a few places where we ignored PERL_PATH and blindly used
+   /usr/bin/perl, which have been corrected.
+   (merge c1917156a0 jk/use-perl-path-consistently later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint).
+   (merge 9b0c7f308a jc/am-doc-refer-to-format-patch later to maint).
+   (merge b10cbdac4c bb/unicode-width-table-15 later to maint).
+   (merge 3457b50e8c ab/retire-scripted-add-p later to maint).
+   (merge d52fcf493b ds/p2000-fix-grep-sparse later to maint).
+   (merge ec063d2591 ss/hashmap-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 1aaed69d11 rs/archive-mtime later to maint).
+   (merge 2da2cc9b28 ob/rollback-after-commit-lock-failure later to maint).
+   (merge 54dbd0933b ob/sequencer-save-head-simplify later to maint).
+   (merge a93cbe8d78 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation later to maint).
+   (merge cc48ddd937 jk/chainlint-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge 4833b08426 ow/ref-format-remove-unused-member later to maint).
+   (merge d0ea2ca1cf dw/doc-submittingpatches-grammofix later to maint).