@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
179179 the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
180180 which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
181181
182- The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
182+ * The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
183183 updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
184184 errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
185185 (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -308,6 +308,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
308308 * A handful of tests that were broken under gettext-poison build have
309309 been fixed.
310310
311+ * The recent i18n patch we added during this cycle did a bit too much
312+ refactoring of the messages to avoid word-legos; the repetition has
313+ been reduced to help translators.
314+
311315
312316Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
313317
@@ -563,7 +567,7 @@ notes for details).
563567 caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
564568 behaviour of the fast-path.
565569
566- * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
570+ * Squelch compiler warnings for nedmalloc (in compat/) library.
567571
568572 * A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
569573 has been plugged.
@@ -631,10 +635,33 @@ notes for details).
631635 taught to notice these exit status codes.
632636 (merge 45a4f5d jk/difftool-command-not-found later to maint).
633637
638+ * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
639+ which has been corrected.
640+ (merge 6db5967 js/no-html-bypass-on-windows later to maint).
641+
642+ * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
643+ variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
644+ git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
645+ place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
646+ override, and if so how?"
647+ (merge ae1f709 dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc later to maint).
648+
649+ * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open
650+ a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then
651+ finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either
652+ removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a
653+ subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the
654+ subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is
655+ made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has
656+ the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
657+ to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
658+ (merge 05d1ed6 bw/mingw-avoid-inheriting-fd-to-lockfile later to maint).
659+
634660 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
635661 (merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
636662 (merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
637663 (merge 1eb47f1 rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev later to maint).
638664 (merge ddd0bfa jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
639665 (merge ecf30b2 rs/mailinfo-lib later to maint).
640666 (merge 0eb75ce sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
667+ (merge 175d38c hv/doc-commit-reference-style later to maint).
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