omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
your workflow.
+ * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in
+ place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has
been updated to share more code with the code that deals with
normal references.
- (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint).
+
+ * strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier
+ to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should
+ allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to
+ help users on DOSsy systems.
+
+ * "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information
+ regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It
+ has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected
+ (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing
+ only the number of changes).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
now close the packs before doing so.
(merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
+ * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a
+ regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 1dc413e jk/filter-branch-no-index later to maint).
+
+ * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has
+ been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation.
+ (merge 719c3da jk/sanity later to maint).
+
+ * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch
+ named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary
+ disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0.
+ (merge 0571979 jk/list-tag-2.7-regression later to maint).
+
+ * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion
+ 1.9.0 and later.
+ (merge 0b66415 ew/svn-1.9.0-auth later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).