when only small part of the working tree changes.
* Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top
- by upstreaming them continues.
+ by upstreaming them continues. More tests that are not applicable
+ to the Windows environment are identified and either skipped or
+ made more portable.
- * Patches maintained by msysgit folks for Windows port are being
- upstreamed here a bit by bit.
+ * Eradication of "test $condition -a $condition" from our scripts
+ continues.
* The leaf function to check validity of a refname format has been
micro-optimized, using SSE2 instructions when available. A few