variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
now preserved when set.
+ * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
+ understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
+
* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
existing the "--exclude" option.
* "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
server that uses keep-alive.
+ * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
+ providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
+
* "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
Performance
* "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
+ * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
+ when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
+ due to its age.
+
* Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.
+ (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.
+ (merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
+ final commit correctly.
+ (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint).
+
+ * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and
+ "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that
+ follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost
+ it by mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them
+ match again.
+ (merge 5112068 rt/cherry-revert-conflict-summary later to maint).
+
+ * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git
+ directory discovery stopped at a mount point.
+ (merge 2565b43 cb/maint-report-mount-point-correctly-in-setup later to maint).
+
+ * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name
+ can be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can
+ never be a path in the context of the command.
+ (merge 6d5b93f cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion later to maint).
+
+ * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly
+ when multiple connections are used simultaneously.
+ (merge 6f4c347 cb/http-multi-curl-auth later to maint).
+
* The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
(merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint).