Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.34.0-rc2-9-g4d53e

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diff --git a/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt b/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
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@@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * "git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and
    actual types of an object better.
 
- * Use ssh public crypto for object and push-cert signing.
+ * In addition to GnuPG, ssh public crypto can be used for object and
+   push-cert signing.  Note that this feature cannot be used with
+   ssh-keygen from OpenSSH 8.7, whose support for it is broken.  Avoid
+   using it unless you update to OpenSSH 8.8.
 
  * "git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just
    like "git grep string" does.
@@ -182,7 +185,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that
    haven't been modified.
 
- * The codepath to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files
+ * The code path to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files
    has learned to release the mmaped memory holding the current
    version of .midx before removing them from the disk, as some
    platforms do not allow removal of a file that still has mapping.
@@ -260,12 +263,8 @@ Fixes since v2.33
  * The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
    is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
 
- * Doc update plus improved error reporting.
-
  * Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
 
- * Regression fix.
-
  * The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
    merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
    without the content level merge.  This fixes a regression caused by
@@ -405,9 +404,23 @@ Fixes since v2.33
    (merge 47bfdfb3fd ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify later to maint).
 
  * One CI task based on Fedora image noticed a not-quite-kosher
-   consturct recently, which has been corrected.
+   construct recently, which has been corrected.
    (merge 4b540cf913 vd/pthread-setspecific-g11-fix later to maint).
 
+ * "git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make
+   it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but
+   instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to
+   fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing
+   to diagnose as an error.  This has been corrected.
+   (merge 361cb52383 jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date later to maint).
+
+ * The way Cygwin emulates a unix-domain socket, on top of which the
+   simple-ipc mechanism is implemented, can race with the program on
+   the other side that wants to use the socket, and briefly make it
+   appear as a regular file before lstat(2) starts reporting it as a
+   socket.  We now have a workaround on the side that connects to a
+   unix domain socket.
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint).
    (merge 8c6b4332b4 rs/close-pack-leakfix later to maint).
diff --git a/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html b/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html
index 458c63afa..9f923bbf1 100644
--- a/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html
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diff --git a/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html b/howto/keep-canonical-history-correct.html
index 3518cd6d3..6d96b3d10 100644
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diff --git a/howto/maintain-git.html b/howto/maintain-git.html
index 4c216fce6..a54d665bc 100644
--- a/howto/maintain-git.html
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diff --git a/howto/new-command.html b/howto/new-command.html
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diff --git a/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html b/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html
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diff --git a/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.html b/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.html
index 441bc4d99..0ad584164 100644
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diff --git a/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html b/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html
index 557766b3a..11f110f52 100644
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diff --git a/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html b/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html
index 83ca10156..5abfa8023 100644
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diff --git a/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html b/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html
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diff --git a/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html b/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html
index 8fa428d21..b0d547548 100644
--- a/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html
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@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ Committed merge 7fb9b7262a1d1e0a47bbfdcbbcf50ce0635d3f8f
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diff --git a/howto/separating-topic-branches.html b/howto/separating-topic-branches.html
index 671c56305..9b4cf92da 100644
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diff --git a/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html b/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html
index eae2c0f3b..edff7a0cf 100644
--- a/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html
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diff --git a/howto/update-hook-example.html b/howto/update-hook-example.html
index 5c1f20a75..8c135a029 100644
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diff --git a/howto/use-git-daemon.html b/howto/use-git-daemon.html
index b7ac57a2b..2624f580a 100644
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diff --git a/howto/using-merge-subtree.html b/howto/using-merge-subtree.html
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diff --git a/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html b/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html
index 8cbb3a728..094d1c443 100644
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