embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of
the superproject.
+ * Porcelain scripts written in Perl are getting internationalized.
+
+ * "git merge --continue" has been added as a synonym to "git commit"
+ to conclude a merge that has stopped due to conflicts.
+
+ * Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports
+ during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration
+ mechanism.
+
+ * "git shortlog" learned "--committer" option to group commits by
+ committer, instead of author.
+
+ * GitLFS integration with "git p4" has been updated.
+
+ * The isatty() emulation for Windows has been updated to eradicate
+ the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC
+ runtime.
+
+ * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
+ the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
+ more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
+ (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
(merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint).
+ * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git
+ opens has been simplified.
+ (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift
+ the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of
+ them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the
+ "--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one.
+ (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint).
+
+ * A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
+ easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
+ superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
+ that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Fix for NDEBUG builds.
(merge 08414938a2 jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers later to maint).
+ * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
+ specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
+ push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.
+ (merge b284495e93 jc/push-default-explicit later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link.
+ (merge df8a9e86db ld/p4-compare-dir-vs-symlink later to maint).
+
+ * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running
+ "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge ce6926974e jk/difftool-in-subdir later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist
+ that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed
+ by many empty commits. This has been fixed.
+ (merge 9943e5b979 gv/p4-multi-path-commit-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been
+ fixed.
+ (merge c46458e82f mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http
+ rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that
+ will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
+ and abort the transfer.
+ (merge f8edeaa05d dt/smart-http-detect-server-going-away later to maint).
+
+ * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across
+ three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
+ Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
+ pack.compression variables the same way.
+ (merge 8de7eeb54b jc/compression-config later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
+ tree, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 405d7f4af6 mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new later to maint).
+
+ * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
+ lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 48d5014dd4 jc/abbrev-autoscale-config later to maint).
+
+ * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
+ (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint).
(merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
(merge 9e189f1a5c sb/t3600-cleanup later to maint).
(merge e2c20be57c lr/doc-fix-cet later to maint).
(merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint).
+ (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 7eeda8b821 ls/filter-process later to maint).
+ (merge 6cc823c5c1 jt/fetch-no-redundant-tag-fetch-map later to maint).
+ (merge 235ec24352 mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc later to maint).
+ (merge f1350d0c12 mm/gc-safety-doc later to maint).