such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,
"--no-expand-tabs".
+ * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when
+ formulating a message ID.
+ (merge f916ab0 ew/send-email-readable-message-id later to maint).
+
+ * "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict
+ signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was
+ no way to record these separate resolutions.
+ (merge 890fca8 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
Git repository.
(merge 274db84 jk/check-repository-format later to maint).
+ * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
+ refs backends.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
branch we locally checked out).
(merge 95c38fb jk/branch-shortening-funny-symrefs later to maint).
+ * A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed
+ the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real
+ repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 1f15ba1 sb/submodule-helper-clone-regression-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message
+ is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected.
+ (merge 27014cb ad/commit-have-m-option later to maint).
+
+ * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did
+ not work well.
+ (merge eb94ee7 ky/imap-send later to maint).
+
+ * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
+ we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
+ (merge 1245c74 ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0 later to maint).
+
+ * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
+ that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
+ (merge 87f8a0b jc/http-socks5h later to maint).
+
+ * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
+ printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
+ (merge 1cae428 jk/do-not-printf-NULL later to maint).
+
+ * On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then
+ rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary,
+ hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary"
+ pattern.
+
+ This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
+ already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also
+ has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
+ See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
+ (merge e53a64b ad/cygwin-wants-rename later to maint).
+
+ * "merge-octopus" strategy did not ensure that the index is clean
+ when merge begins.
+
+ * When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at
+ the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting
+ tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to
+ update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later
+ operations.
+
+ * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
+ recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
+ from the root level of the superproject.
+ (merge 2ab5660 sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
(merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).
(merge 8e9b208 js/mingw-tests-2.8 later to maint).
(merge d55de70 jc/makefile-redirection-stderr later to maint).
(merge 4232b21 ep/trace-doc-sample-fix later to maint).
+ (merge ef8c95e ew/send-email-drop-data-dumper later to maint).
+ (merge 24041d6 jc/xstrfmt-null-with-prec-0 later to maint).
+ (merge 7bec7f5 jk/use-write-script-more later to maint).