remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was
manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort".
+ * "git clone --reference $there --recurse-submodules $super" has been
+ taught to guess repositories usable as references for submodules of
+ $super that are embedded in $there while making a clone of the
+ superproject borrow objects from $there; extend the mechanism to
+ also allow submodules of these submodules to borrow repositories
+ embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of
+ the superproject.
+
+ * Porcelain scripts written in Perl are getting internationalized.
+
+ * "git merge --continue" has been added as a synonym to "git commit"
+ to conclude a merge that has stopped due to conflicts.
+
+ * Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports
+ during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration
+ mechanism.
+
+ * "git shortlog" learned "--committer" option to group commits by
+ committer, instead of author.
+
+ * GitLFS integration with "git p4" has been updated.
+
+ * The isatty() emulation for Windows has been updated to eradicate
+ the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC
+ runtime.
+
+ * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
+ the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
+ more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
+ (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
(merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint).
+ * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git
+ opens has been simplified.
+ (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift
+ the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of
+ them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the
+ "--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one.
+ (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint).
+
+ * A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
+ easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
+ superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
+ that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff.
(merge 6cf5f6cef7 da/mergetool-xxdiff-hotkey later to maint).
+ * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back
+ to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when
+ the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user
+ did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt
+ the operation.
+ (merge ce73bb22d8 sb/sequencer-abort-safety later to maint).
+
+ * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation.
+ (merge 649b0c316a nd/shallow-fixup later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage
+ objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot
+ have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn
+ made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This
+ has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when
+ appending such a path to the colon-separated list.
+ (merge 5e74824fac jk/quote-env-path-list-component later to maint).
+
+ * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:"
+ before the custom message programs give, when they want to die
+ with a message about wrong command line options followed by the
+ standard usage string.
+ (merge 87433261a4 jk/parseopt-usage-msg-opt later to maint).
+
+ * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository,
+ but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that
+ corresponds to a packfile does not.
+ (merge 29401e1575 jk/index-pack-wo-repo-from-stdin later to maint).
+
+ * Fix for NDEBUG builds.
+ (merge 08414938a2 jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers later to maint).
+
+ * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
+ specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
+ push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.
+ (merge b284495e93 jc/push-default-explicit later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link.
+ (merge df8a9e86db ld/p4-compare-dir-vs-symlink later to maint).
+
+ * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running
+ "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge ce6926974e jk/difftool-in-subdir later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist
+ that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed
+ by many empty commits. This has been fixed.
+ (merge 9943e5b979 gv/p4-multi-path-commit-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been
+ fixed.
+ (merge c46458e82f mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http
+ rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that
+ will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
+ and abort the transfer.
+ (merge f8edeaa05d dt/smart-http-detect-server-going-away later to maint).
+
+ * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across
+ three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
+ Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
+ pack.compression variables the same way.
+ (merge 8de7eeb54b jc/compression-config later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
+ tree, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 405d7f4af6 mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new later to maint).
+
+ * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
+ lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 48d5014dd4 jc/abbrev-autoscale-config later to maint).
+
+ * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
+ (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint).
(merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
(merge 9e189f1a5c sb/t3600-cleanup later to maint).
(merge e2c20be57c lr/doc-fix-cet later to maint).
(merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint).
+ (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 7eeda8b821 ls/filter-process later to maint).
+ (merge 6cc823c5c1 jt/fetch-no-redundant-tag-fetch-map later to maint).
+ (merge 235ec24352 mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc later to maint).
+ (merge f1350d0c12 mm/gc-safety-doc later to maint).