* "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn
branch.
+ * "git commit" can be told to use --cleanup=whitespace by setting the
+ configuration variable commit.cleanup to 'whitespace'.
+
* "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different
names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages.
+ * "git log" and friends can be told with --use-mailmap option to
+ rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap
+ mechanism.
+
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
to add a newline after such a line.
(merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint).
+ * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while
+ looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>.
+ (merge ca87dd6 ds/completion-silence-in-tree-path-probe later to maint).
+
+ * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space
+ after completing a single directory name.
+ (merge 92f1c04 mk/complete-tcsh later to maint).
+
* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
(merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint).