* "git clone --dissociate" learned that it can be used even when
"--reference" was not used at the same time.
+ * "git blame" learnt to take "--first-parent" and "--reverse" at the
+ same time when it makes sense.
+
+ * "git checkout" did not follow the usual "--[no-]progress"
+ convention and implemented only "--quiet" that is essentially
+ a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the
+ usual "--[no-]progress".
+
+ * The semantics of tranfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been
+ extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets
+ you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical
+ repository and virtually serve them as separate ones.
+
+ * send-email config variables whose values are pathnames now go
+ through the ~username/ expansion.
+
+ * bash completion learnt to TAB-complete recipient addresses given
+ to send-email.
+
+ * The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work
+ around issue when running Git from inside emacs.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The implementation of "git mailinfo" was refactored so that a
mailinfo() function can be directly called from inside a process.
+ * With a "debug" helper, debugging of a single "git" invocation in
+ our test scripts has become a lot easier.
+
+ * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which
+ upset some linkers.
+
+ * Cross completed task off of subtree project's todo list.
+
+ * Test cleanups for the subtree project.
+
+ * Clean up style in an ancient test t9300.
+
+ * Work around some test flakiness with p4d.
+
+ * Fsck did not correctly detect a NUL-truncated header in a tag.
+
+ * Use a safer behavior when we hit errors verifying remote certificates.
+
+ * Speed up filter-branch for cases where we only care about rewriting
+ commits, not tree data.
+
+ * The parse-options API has been updated to make "-h" command line
+ option work more consistently in all commands.
+
+ * "git svn rebase/mkdirs" got optimized by keeping track of empty
+ directories better.
+
+ * Fix some racy client/server tests by treating SIGPIPE the same as a
+ normal non-zero exit.
+
+ * The necessary infrastructure to build topics using the free Travis
+ CI has been added. Developers forking from this topic (and enabling
+ Travis) can do their own builds, and we can turn on auto-builds for
+ git/git (including build-status for pull requests that people
+ open).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0.
(merge 29abb33 jc/add-u-A-default-to-top later to maint).
+ * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it
+ needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do.
+ (merge b1b49ff rs/daemon-plug-child-leak later to maint).
+
+ * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string
+ "HEAD", which has been corrected.
+ (merge c72b49d rs/wt-status-detached-branch-fix later to maint).
+
+ * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the
+ list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to
+ correctly initialize the list.
+ (merge 9a6e4f0 jk/initialization-fix-to-add-submodule-odb later to maint).
+
+ * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory
+ for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be
+ copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already
+ special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try
+ computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may
+ not even exist or may be a directory.
+ (merge cfe2d4b da/difftool later to maint).
+
+ * A Range: request can be responded with a full response and when
+ asked properly libcurl knows how to strip the result down to the
+ requested range. However, we were hand-crafting a range request
+ and it did not kick in.
+
+ * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in
+ the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them.
+ (merge 478f34d dk/gc-idx-wo-pack later to maint).
+
+ * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take
+ more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround
+ for it.
+ (merge 001fd7a ad/sha1-update-chunked later to maint).
+
+ * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we
+ are on an orphan or an unborn branch.
+ (merge c26f70c sg/bash-prompt-dirty-orphan later to maint).
+
+ * A build without NO_IPv6 used to use gethostbyname() when guessing
+ user's hostname, instead of getaddrinfo() that is used in other
+ codepaths in such a build.
+ (merge 00bce77 ep/ident-with-getaddrinfo later to maint).
+
+ * The exit code of git-fsck didnot reflect some types of errors found
+ in packed objects, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 8c24d83 dt/fsck-verify-pack-error later to maint).
+
* Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.
(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
(merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).
(merge b2af482 xf/user-manual-ff later to maint).
(merge e510ab8 rs/pop-commit later to maint).
(merge fdcdb77 js/misc-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge c949b00 rs/show-branch-argv-array later to maint).
+ (merge 56a8aea nd/doc-check-ref-format-typo later to maint).