stable, which was a no-no. Apply a workaround to force a
particular date format.
+ * "git clone $URL" in recent releases of Git contains a regression in
+ the code that invents a new repository name incorrectly based on
+ the $URL. This has been corrected.
+ (merge db2e220 jk/guess-repo-name-regression-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Running tests with the "-x" option to make them verbose had some
+ unpleasant interactions with other features of the test suite.
+ (merge 9b5fe78 jk/test-with-x later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull" in recent releases of Git has a regression in the code
+ that allows custom path to the --upload-pack=<program>. This has
+ been corrected.
+
+ * pipe() emulation used in Git for Windows looked at a wrong variable
+ when checking for an error from an _open_osfhandle() call.
+
Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
clean-ups.