generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better
performance.
+ * "git diff" had a wierd worst case behaviour that can be triggered
+ when comparing files with potentially many places that could match.
+
* "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection
errors for addresses that couldn't be connected when at least one
address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate
* "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving
"fatal: no such branch: topci" error message.
+ * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large
+ fixes for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world
+ projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in
+ the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the
+ corner case bugs this update fixes).
+
* "git stash" learned --include-untracked option.
* "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a
submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be
updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end.
+ * "git push" can be told with --recurse-submodules=check option to
+ refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules'
+ commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes.
+
* "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend only a
subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to
put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be