Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.40.0-363-g9c699

19 files changed, 43 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt b/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
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@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * Clean-up of the code path that deals with merge strategy option
    handling in "git rebase".
 
+ * "git clone --local" stops copying from an original repository that
+   has symbolic links inside its $GIT_DIR; an error message when that
+   happens has been updated.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -213,6 +217,18 @@ Fixes since v2.40
  * Doc toolchain update to remove old workaround for AsciiDoc.
    (merge 8806120de6 fc/remove-header-workarounds-for-asciidoc later to maint).
 
+ * The userdiff regexp patterns for various filetypes that are built
+   into the system have been updated to avoid triggering regexp errors
+   from UTF-8 aware regex engines.
+   (merge be39144954 rs/userdiff-multibyte-regex later to maint).
+
+ * The approxidate() API has been simplified by losing an extra
+   function that did the same thing as another one.
+   (merge 8a7f0b666f rs/remove-approxidate-relative later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to replace a hardcoded constant with a CPP macro.
+   (merge c870de6502 rs/get-tar-commit-id-use-defined-const 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).
@@ -228,3 +244,4 @@ Fixes since v2.40
    (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).
+   (merge fd72637423 ar/t2024-checkout-output-fix later to maint).
diff --git a/git-clone.html b/git-clone.html
index 8f6f3210e..c87a956e5 100644
--- a/git-clone.html
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@@ -806,6 +806,10 @@ repository is specified as a URL, then this flag is ignored (and we
 never use the local optimizations).  Specifying <code>--no-local</code> will

 override the default when <code>/path/to/repo</code> is given, using the regular

 Git transport instead.</p></div>

+<div class="paragraph"><p>If the repository&#8217;s <code>$GIT_DIR/objects</code> has symbolic links or is a

+symbolic link, the clone will fail. This is a security measure to

+prevent the unintentional copying of files by dereferencing the symbolic

+links.</p></div>

 <div class="paragraph"><p><strong>NOTE</strong>: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the

 source repository, similar to running <code>cp -r src dst</code> while modifying

 <code>src</code>.</p></div>

@@ -1509,7 +1513,7 @@ clone.filterSubmodules
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diff --git a/git-clone.txt b/git-clone.txt
index d6434d262..c37c4a37f 100644
--- a/git-clone.txt
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@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ never use the local optimizations).  Specifying `--no-local` will
 override the default when `/path/to/repo` is given, using the regular
 Git transport instead.
 +
+If the repository's `$GIT_DIR/objects` has symbolic links or is a
+symbolic link, the clone will fail. This is a security measure to
+prevent the unintentional copying of files by dereferencing the symbolic
+links.
++
 *NOTE*: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the
 source repository, similar to running `cp -r src dst` while modifying
 `src`.
diff --git a/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html b/howto/coordinate-embargoed-releases.html
index c55310d30..7c4770a09 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 28467beb4..519fb717b 100644
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diff --git a/howto/maintain-git.html b/howto/maintain-git.html
index 78d524935..54f92cf09 100644
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diff --git a/howto/new-command.html b/howto/new-command.html
index 90c9280a8..8129ccf84 100644
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diff --git a/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html b/howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.html
index 18397aa71..31c2911dc 100644
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diff --git a/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.html b/howto/rebuild-from-update-hook.html
index 67386b582..5669d6f38 100644
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diff --git a/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html b/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.html
index 9d6777ef0..dc50f7fd8 100644
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diff --git a/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html b/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html
index 95e2342a9..22bac140d 100644
--- a/howto/recover-corrupted-object-harder.html
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diff --git a/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html b/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html
index c99193748..db84f2e9e 100644
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diff --git a/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html b/howto/revert-branch-rebase.html
index 3fc03d9ac..47bf1c04a 100644
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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 a32650b33..dede3cb59 100644
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diff --git a/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html b/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.html
index 0cd392043..d0eaeccc8 100644
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diff --git a/howto/update-hook-example.html b/howto/update-hook-example.html
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diff --git a/howto/use-git-daemon.html b/howto/use-git-daemon.html
index ee1a7a2e1..06c958a3e 100644
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diff --git a/howto/using-merge-subtree.html b/howto/using-merge-subtree.html
index 3ac236c64..ed036b845 100644
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diff --git a/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html b/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.html
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