* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
+ * Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
+ upstream configured have been clatified.
+
+ * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
+ tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
+ informational message.
+
+ * The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
+ variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
+ now preserved when set.
+
+ * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
+ understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
+
+ * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
+ existing the "--exclude" option.
+
+ * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a
+ synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
+ needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the
+ result in them can be eyeballed with extra care.
+
+ * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
+ involved in the side topic you are merging.
+
+ * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
+ categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
+
+ * "git push --recurse-submodules" learned to optionally look into the
+ histories of submodules bound to the superproject and push them
+ out.
+
+ * A 'snapshot' request to "gitweb" honors If-Modified-Since: header,
+ based on the commit date.
+
+ * "gitweb" learned to highlight the patch it outputs even more.
Foreign Interface
+ * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
+ server that uses keep-alive.
+
+ * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
+ providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
+
+ * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
Performance
+ * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
+
+ * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
+ when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
+ due to its age.
+
+ * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
+ inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
+ one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
+ and sorted immediately before getting used.
Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
+ * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the
+ top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line.
+
+ * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout"
+ to check out another branch) has been plugged.
+
+ * More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
+ from the object store without keeping everything in core.
+
+ * Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some
+ systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
+ spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
+
+ * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
+ walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+
+ * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.
+ (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.
+ (merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
+ final commit correctly.
+ (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint).
+
+ * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and
+ "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that
+ follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost
+ it by mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them
+ match again.
+ (merge 5112068 rt/cherry-revert-conflict-summary later to maint).
+
+ * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git
+ directory discovery stopped at a mount point.
+ (merge 2565b43 cb/maint-report-mount-point-correctly-in-setup later to maint).
+
+ * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name
+ can be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can
+ never be a path in the context of the command.
+ (merge 6d5b93f cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion later to maint).
+
+ * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly
+ when multiple connections are used simultaneously.
+ (merge 6f4c347 cb/http-multi-curl-auth later to maint).
+
+ * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
+ (merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint).
+
+ * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
+ ref.
+ (merge 0997ada mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref later to maint).
+
+ * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking
+ pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API.
+ (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint).
+
+ * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references
+ that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error.
+ (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fetch" encounters repositories with too many references,
+ the command line of "fetch-pack" that is run by a helper
+ e.g. remote-curl, may fail to hold all of them. Now such an
+ internal invocation can feed the references through the standard
+ input of "fetch-pack".
+ (merge 7103d25 it/fetch-pack-many-refs later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" that recurses into submodules on demand did not check
+ if it needs to go into submodules when non branches (most notably,
+ tags) are fetched.
+ (merge a6801ad jl/maint-submodule-recurse-fetch later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin
+ since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2
+ era.
+ (merge 059a500 jc/maint-blame-minimal later to maint).
+
+ * "log -p --graph" used with "--stat" had a few formatting error.
+ (merge e2c5966 lp/maint-diff-three-dash-with-graph later to maint).
+
+ * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a
+ commit that only results in changes to submodules.
+ (merge a6754cd jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only later to maint).