enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the
multiple cores they have.
+ * "git clone" applies the "if cloning from a local disk, physically
+ copy repository using hardlinks, unless otherwise told not to with
+ --no-local" optimization when url.*.insteadOf mechanism rewrites a
+ "git clone $URL" that refers to a repository over the network to a
+ clone from a local disk.
+
* "git commit --date=<date>" option learned to read from more
timestamp formats, including "--date=now".
* "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a
replacement by editing an existing object.
+ * "git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite parents of a
+ commit.
+
* "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to
tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file
when emitting later input files.
* "git tag" when editing the tag message shows the name of the tag
being edited as a comment in the editor.
+ * "git tag" learned to pay attention to "tag.sort" configuration, to
+ be used as the default sort order when no --sort=<value> the option
+ is given.
+
* "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed
commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check
signed tags, was added.
couple of options unique to "git merge".
(merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint).
+ * The unix-domain socket used by the sample credential cache daemon
+ tried to unlink an existing stale one at a wrong path, if the path
+ to the socket was given as an overlong path that does not fit in
+ sun_path member of the sockaddr_un structure.
+ (merge 2869b3e rs/fix-unlink-unix-socket later to maint).
+
* An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library
function in a rarely used code path.
(merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint).
emptying the insn sheet.
(merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint).
+ * "git rebase --fork-point" did not filter out patch-identical
+ commits correctly.
+
* During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be
skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted.
(merge 95104c7 bc/fix-rebase-merge-skip later to maint).