UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as
+ if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in
+ Gerrit).
+
* "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a few formatting directives;
e.g. "%(color:red)%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(refname:short) %(subject)".
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed;
+ use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code.
+
+ * A few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix string comparison
+ functions have been unified to starts_with() and ends_with().
+
* The new PERLLIB_EXTRA makefile variable can be used to specify
additional directories Perl modules (e.g. the ones necessary to run
git-svn) are installed on the platform when building.
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
for details).
+ * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
+ out, but it didn't.
+ (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint).
+
+ * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been
+ retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that
+ corrupts system error messages in non-C locales.
+
+ * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket
+ layer in "git send-email".
+ (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before
+ editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned
+ control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the
+ first modified path was a submodule.
+ (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored.
+ Diagnose it as an error.
+ (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint).
+
+ * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are
+ parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks
+ to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1.
+ (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint).
+
* "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the
command line parser.
(merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint).