forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve
and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry).
+ * The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required
+ to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
+ to result in intermittent errors in "git push").
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
to two separate options is detected by parse_options() API to help
developers.
+ * The code path to write out the packed-refs file has been optimized,
+ which especially matters in a repository with a large number of
+ refs.
+
+ * The check to see if a ref $F can be created by making sure no
+ existing ref has $F/ as its prefix has been optimized, which
+ especially matters in a repository with a large number of existing
+ refs.
+
+ * "git fsck" was taught to check contents of tag objects a bit more.
+
+ * "git hash-object" was taught a "--literally" option to help
+ debugging.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* "git fsck" failed to report that it found corrupt objects via its
exit status in some cases.
(merge 30d1038 jk/fsck-exit-code-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Use of "--verbose" option used to break "git branch --merged".
+ (merge 12994dd jk/maint-branch-verbose-merged later to maint).