stashed away only partially.
(merge 9e140909f6 tg/stash-push later to maint).
+ * Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
pointless).
(merge 40a18fc77c jk/http-auth later to maint).
+ * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1
+ routines, so let them.
+ (merge 2cfc70f0de jh/mingw-openssl-sha1 later to maint).
+
+ * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so
+ old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not
+ so ancient.
+ (merge 28e1fb5466 jt/perf-updates later to maint).
+
+ * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
+ Travis CI.
+ (merge 88dedd5e72 js/travis-32bit-linux later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options
+ to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose)
+ output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before
+ the breakage reaches to any released version.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
(merge 8e27391a5f jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect later to maint).
+ * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
+ selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
+ directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
+ "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
+ fixed.
+ (merge c852bd54bd jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt later to maint).
+
+ * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
+ operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
+ seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
+ (merge ce83eadd9a js/realpath-pathdup-fix later to maint).
+
+ * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
+ standard error stream, but we somehow did.
+ (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint).
+
+ * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
+ are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge aaae0bf787 ax/line-log-range-merge-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
+ structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
+ (merge 07f546cda5 vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
+ correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
+ made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
+ field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
+ conversion).
+ (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
+ they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
+ (merge c6507484a2 ab/cond-skip-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the
+ code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in
+ disambiguating.
+ (merge fd4692ff70 jk/interpret-branch-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other
+ side does not allow such an request, failed without much
+ explanation.
+ (merge d56583ded6 mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object later to maint).
+
+ * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that
+ becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty.
+ (merge 32da7467eb dp/filter-branch-prune-empty later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http
+ transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to
+ enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to
+ give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates.
+ (merge 5cae73d5d2 ew/http-alternates-as-redirects-warning later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
+ when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
+ (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint).
(merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).
(merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint).
(merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint).
+ (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint).