@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
2626 the fast-export side has been made.
2727
2828 * "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully
29- qualified refname and not clear what the end user meant. The
29+ qualified refname and it is not clear what the end user meant. The
3030 codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also
3131 guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed
3232 object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
7777
7878 * A new date format "--date=human" that morphs its output depending
7979 on how far the time is from the current time has been introduced.
80- "--date=auto" can be used to use this new format when the output is
81- going to the pager or to the terminal and otherwise the default
82- format.
80+ "--date=auto:human " can be used to use this new format (or any
81+ existing format) when the output is going to the pager or to the
82+ terminal, and otherwise the default format.
8383
8484
8585Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
8888 (non-)existence of loose objects.
8989
9090 * More codepaths have become aware of working with in-core repository
91- instance other than the default "the_repository".
91+ instances other than the default "the_repository".
9292
9393 * The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions.
9494
@@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
125125 * The in-core repository instances are passed through more codepaths.
126126
127127 * Update the protocol message specification to allow only the limited
128- use of scaled quantities. This is ensure potential compatibility
129- issues will not go out of hand.
128+ use of scaled quantities. This is to ensure potential compatibility
129+ issues will not get out of hand.
130130
131131 * Micro-optimize the code that prepares commit objects to be walked
132132 by "git rev-list" when the commit-graph is available.
133133
134- * "git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchange over
134+ * "git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchanges over
135135 the sideband channel while talking the v2 protocol.
136136
137137 * The codepath to write out commit-graph has been optimized by
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
180180
181181 * A flakey "p4" test has been removed.
182182
183+ * The code and tests assume that the system supplied iconv() would
184+ always use BOM in its output when asked to encode to UTF-16 (or
185+ UTF-32), but apparently some implementations output big-endian
186+ without BOM. A compile-time knob has been added to help such
187+ systems (e.g. NonStop) to add BOM to the output to increase
188+ portability.
189+
183190
184191Fixes since v2.20
185192-----------------
@@ -439,3 +446,6 @@ Fixes since v2.20
439446 (merge 2e285e7803 tz/gpg-test-fix later to maint).
440447 (merge 5427de960b kl/pretty-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
441448 (merge 3815f64b0d js/mingw-host-cpu later to maint).
449+ (merge 5fe81438b5 rj/sequencer-sign-off-header-static later to maint).
450+ (merge 18a4f6be6b nd/fileno-may-be-macro later to maint).
451+ (merge 99e9ab54ab kd/t0028-octal-del-is-377-not-777 later to maint).
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