Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able.
+
* "git repack" is now written in C.
* Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * Bash prompting code to deal with an SVN remote as an upstream
+ were coded in a way not supported by older Bash versions (3.x).
+ (merge 52ec889 sg/prompt-svn-remote-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The fall-back parsing of commit objects with broken author or
+ committer lines were less robust than ideal in picking up the
+ timestamps.
+ (merge 03818a4 jk/split-broken-ident later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects ^v1.0^ v1.0" gave v1.0 tag itself in the
+ output, but "git rev-list --objects v1.0^..v1.0" did not.
+ (merge 895c5ba jc/revision-range-unpeel later to maint).
+
* "git clone" gave some progress messages to the standard output, not
to the standard error, and did not allow suppressing them with the
--no-progress option.