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).
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* 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).
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* "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