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Release Post: Add Git section

John Cai requested to merge jc/add-git-features-section into master

Why is this change being made?

The groupgitaly team at GitLab makes frequent contributions to the Git project itself. This section is meant to highlight these contributions to Git, since improvements and features in Git improves directly or indirectly, the GitLab product.

Since the 17.0 release, we included a section for Git related changes: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/05/16/gitlab-17-0-released/#contributions-to-git-245. This change will give Git work its own section in the release post. This will be identical to the existing experimental features section, except that it will look for .yml files that have:

features:
  git:

This has been discussed in gitlab-org/core-platform-section/discussions#151 (comment 1784773906)

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  • Release Post: Add Git section

The Gitaly::Git team at GitLab makes frequent contributions to the Git project itself. This section is meant to highlight these contributions to Git, since improvements and features in Git improves directly or indirectly, the GitLab product.

Screenshots

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Edited by John Cai

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