* A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been
added.
+ * When "git am" sanitizes the Subject: line, we strip the prefix from
+ "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
+ even less common "RE: subject" intact.
+
* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly
* "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is
an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.
+ * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes
+ effect even on binary files.
+
Foreign Interface
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details).
+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
+
+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
+ branch that is being merged.
+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
+ the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
+ how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first
+ line" to "title".
+ (merge 52ffe99 jw/doc-commit-title later to maint).
+
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR are diagnosed.
+ (merge 8e950da jk/config-warn-on-inaccessible-paths later to maint).
+
+ * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of
+ lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having
+ to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language
+ is English.
+ (merge 218adaa nd/maint-diffstat-summary later to maint).
+
* "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
"--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes