has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
material in user's keyrings.
+ * Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from
+ "git update-index" to "git config".
+
+ * There were a few "now I am doing this thing" progress messages in
+ the TCP connection code that can be triggered by setting a verbose
+ option internally in the code, but "git fetch -v" and friends never
+ passed the verbose option down to that codepath.
+
+ * Clean/smudge filters defined in a configuration file of lower
+ precedence can now be overridden to be a pass-through no-op by
+ setting the variable to an empty string.
+
+ * A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a
+ commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
+ given <pattern>.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
CPU cycles.
(merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint).
+ * "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix
+ possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a
+ worktree to different places without telling Git (the original
+ repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but
+ "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will
+ obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse
+ when triggered.
+ (merge 618244e nd/do-not-move-worktree-manually later to maint).
+
+ * The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line
+ termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that
+ are themselves CRLF line-terminated.
+ (merge 15980de js/xmerge-marker-eol later to maint).
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push
+ needed to force (or fast-forwarded).
+ (merge b2e93f8 aw/push-force-with-lease-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * The emulated "yes" command used in our test scripts has been
+ tweaked not to spend too much time generating unnecessary output
+ that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would
+ not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.
+ (merge 6129c93 js/test-lib-windows-emulated-yes later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).