Git fixes pathspec overflow with exclude patterns
Negative pathspecs shorter than a shared positive prefix could trigger a heap buffer over-read, and excludes at the front blocked prefix optimization.
By segfault#vcs
Git fixes quadratic pack loading slowdown in large monorepos
A late-2025 packfile store refactor made everyday commands crawl when tens of thousands of packs were present.
By segfaultGit merge-base walks to stop early on one-sided histories
A paint-walk optimization from Spotify cuts merge-base step counts by orders of magnitude on large imported graphs and drops an old date-ordering workaround.
By rvalue