necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
(merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
+ * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
+
+ * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
+ (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint).
+
+ * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
+ to pack-objects.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho &
Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now.
+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
+
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them.
(merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint).
+ * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
+ submodule that itself has submodules.
+ (merge 218c883783 sb/checkout-recurse-submodules later to maint).
+
+ * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the
+ split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the
+ future.
+ (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint).
+
+ * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
+ the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
+ in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
+ strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other
+ options are in use, and need to be disabled.
+ (merge da5a1f8100 jk/disable-pack-reuse-when-broken later to maint).
+
+ * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).
+ (merge 443a12f37b js/plug-leaks later to maint).
+
+ * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use
+ --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request
+ will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish
+ to be merged.
+ (merge b9b10d3681 jc/read-tree-empty-with-m later to maint).
+
+ * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out
+ with "platform native" line ending convention by default on
+ Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts
+ themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be
+ checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.
+ (merge 2779f66505 js/eol-on-ourselves later to maint).
+
+ * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ...").
+ (merge 3d7dd2d3b6 jk/bug-to-abort later to maint).
+
+ * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
+ configuration variables.
+ (merge ce933ebd5a jk/doc-config-include later to maint).
+
+ * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
+ not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
+ speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
+ (merge 6963893943 ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions later to maint).
+
+ * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
+ documentation have been updated to https:// links.
+ (merge 5e68729fd9 jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint).
+
+ * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to
+ resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs,
+ which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem.
+ (merge 613a0e52ea kn/ref-filter-branch-list later to maint).
+
+ * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'.
+ (merge d096d7f1ef pw/rebase-i-regression-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has
+ a new "push" subcommand.
+ (merge 3851e4483f tg/stash-push-fixup later to maint).
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit
+ -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end,
+ i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been
+ corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to
+ the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it.
+ (merge d76650b8d1 bm/interpret-trailers-cut-line-is-eom later to maint).
+
+ * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other
+ end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms
+ that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND,
+ but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing
+ intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling
+ traces from "receive-pack" in the test.
+ (merge 71406ed4d6 jk/alternate-ref-optim later to maint).
+
+ * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at
+ missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they
+ should silently be ignored instead)
+ (merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).
(merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).
(merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint).
(merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint).
(merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).
+ (merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint).