releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.
- (merge 3adab6f jn/merge-no-edit-fix later to maint).
-
* The error message emitted when we see an empty loose object was
not phrased correctly.
(merge 33e42de mm/empty-loose-error-message later to maint).
- * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.
- (merge 31fd8d7 jk/maint-tag-show-fixes later to maint).
-
* "git commit" refused to create a commit when entries added with
"add -N" remained in the index, without telling Git what their content
in the next commit should be. We should have created the commit without
(merge f026358 jc/maint-mailmap-output later to maint).
* "checkout -b" did not allow switching out of an unborn branch.
- (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
-
- * "add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
- submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
- prepared by for the user to edit.
- (merge 701825d js/add-e-submodule-fix later to maint).
-
- * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
- timestamps near year 1970.
- (merge 2c733fb jc/parse-date-raw later to maint).
-
- * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
- required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
- operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
- it is allowed to fast-forward without recording the mergetag.
- (merge b5c9f1c jc/merge-ff-only-stronger-than-signed-merge later to maint).
-
- * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
- (merge c2d17ba jc/branch-desc-typoavoidance later to maint).
-
- * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
- (merge 3a9f58c jn/rpm-spec later to maint).
+ (merge abe1998 jc/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
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