* "git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
the "--all" option.
+ * "git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
+ existing one.
+
+ * Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
+ update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
+ operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
+ option can be passed to Git to disable them.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
the directory, which is unnecessary. The codepath has been
optimized to avoid this overhead.
+ * The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
+ the shell script to C has been merged.
+
+ * Operations that do not touch (majority of) packed refs have been
+ optimized by making accesses to packed-refs file lazy; we no longer
+ pre-parse everything, and an access to a single ref in the
+ packed-refs does not touch majority of irrelevant refs, either.
+
+ * Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with
+ clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged.
(merge 4d01a7fa65 ma/leakplugs later to maint).
+ * Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the
+ option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!)
+ correctly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge a6304fa4c2 bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to
+ refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the
+ last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can
+ happen without any new object getting created.
+ (merge 30e215a65c er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint later to maint).
+
+ * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from
+ request-pull script.
+ (merge e66d7c37a5 ar/request-pull-phrasofix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
(merge 217bb56d4f hn/typofix later to maint).
(merge c08fd6388c jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).
(merge c3342b362e ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name later to maint).
+ (merge 0bca165fdb jk/validate-headref-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 93dbefb389 mr/doc-negative-pathspec later to maint).
+ (merge 5e633326e4 ad/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9ca356fa8b rs/cocci-de-paren-call-params later to maint).
+ (merge 7099153e8d rs/tag-null-pointer-arith-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 0e187d758c rs/run-command-use-alloc-array later to maint).