* Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
configuration.
+ * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
+ --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
+ disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there,
+ we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
+ look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A
+ pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
+ the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
+ are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
+ required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
+ learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
+ looks like so.
+ (merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint).
+
+ * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
+ and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
+
+ * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
+ to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
+ filters.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such
errors if they are not due to missing files.
+ * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
+ create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
+ the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
+ which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index
+ being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
+
+ * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
+ to one.
+ (merge e0556a928f pc/dir-count-slashes later to maint).
+
+ * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
+ with other parts of the system.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* A flaky test has been corrected.
(merge 7c2115aa07 jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint).
+ * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
+ command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
+ set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
+ potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
+ (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint).
+
+ * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub.
+ (merge 0b1bb0c032 ls/github later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all.
+ Bugfix for a topic in v2.13
+ (merge 22fc703ec9 ps/stash-push-pathspec-fix later to maint).
+
+ * As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to
+ strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are
+ impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z
+ and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
+ (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint).
+ (merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
+ (merge 68241cb9dd sb/t4005-modernize later to maint).
+ (merge ae52d57f0b km/test-mailinfo-b-failure later to maint).
+ (merge 8b1d9136e1 sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix later to maint).
+ (merge bb8efa1772 sd/t3200-branch-m-test later to maint).