Start the 2.44 cycle

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt

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+Git v2.44 Release Notes
+=======================
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)"
+ magic pathspec.
+
+ * "git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase,
+ but it is still incompatible with the apply backend.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started.
+
+ * Add support for GitLab CI.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically
+ which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output
+ in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take
+ advantage of.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.43
+-----------------
+
+ * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
+ suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge e7e03ef995 js/ci-discard-prove-state later to maint).
+
+ * Update ref-related tests.
+
+ * "git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when
+ preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
+ (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
+ requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
+ simplifying our implementation.
+ (merge 6ff658cc78 tz/send-email-negatable-options later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.

GIT-VERSION-GEN

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 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.43.0
+DEF_VER=v2.43.GIT
 
 LF='
 '

RelNotes

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-Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt
+Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt