Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc

Git v2.54 Release Notes
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UI, Workflows & Features
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 * "git add -p" and friends note what the current status of the hunk
   being shown is.

 * "git history" history rewriting (experimental) command has been
   added.


 * "git replay" is taught to drop commits that become empty (not the
   ones that are empty in the original).

 * The help text and the documentation for the "--expire" option of
   "git worktree [list|prune]" have been improved.



Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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 * Avoid local submodule repository directory paths overlapping with
   each other by encoding submodule names before using them as path
   components.

 * The string_list API gains a new helper, string_list_sort_u(), and
   new unit tests to extend coverage.

 * Improve set-up time of a perf test.


Fixes since v2.53
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 * HTTP transport failed to authenticate in some code paths, which has
   been corrected.
   (merge ed0f7a62f7 ap/http-probe-rpc-use-auth later to maint).

 * The computation of column width made by "git diff --stat" was
   confused when pathnames contain non-ASCII characters.
   (merge 04f5d95ef7 lp/diff-stat-utf8-display-width-fix later to maint).

 * The "-z" and "--max-depth" documentation (and implementation of
   "-z") in the "git last-modified" command have been updated.
   (merge 9dcc09bed1 tc/last-modified-options-cleanup later to maint).

 * A handful of code paths that started using batched ref update API
   (after Git 2.51 or so) lost detailed error output, which have been
   corrected.
   (merge eff9299eac kn/ref-batch-output-error-reporting-fix later to maint).

 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
   (merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
   (merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).
   (merge 81021871ea sp/myfirstcontribution-include-update later to maint).
   (merge 49223593fd ac/sparse-checkout-string-list-cleanup later to maint).
   (merge a824421d36 sp/t5500-cleanup later to maint).