format.
(merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+ * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to
+ specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent
version of Git even when testing an older installed version.
+ * The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the
+ data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths
+ used to always write to the standard output. As a preparatory step
+ to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these
+ codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE*
+ instead.
+
+ * Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id
+ continues.
+
+ * Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to
+ each ref that was fetched.
+ (merge bc437d1 nd/fetch-ref-summary later to maint).
+
+ * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
+ that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
+ (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
+ feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
+ helper function.
+
+ * "git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its
+ temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/.
+
+ * Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
+ library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
+ recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
+ mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
+ (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
+ a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
+ that is referred to were reported with their 40-hex object names.
+ The command learned the "--name-objects" option to show the path to
+ the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
+
+ * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
+ (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint).
+
+ * Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
+ want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
+ case for recent Mac OS X. The necessary symbols are often found in
+ libc on many modern systems and having -lrt on the command line, as
+ long as the library exists, had no effect, but when the platform
+ removes librt.a that is a different matter--having -lrt will break
+ the linkage.
+
+ This change could be seen as a regression for those who do need to
+ specify -lrt, as they now specifically ask for NEEDS_LIBRT when
+ building. Hopefully they are in the minority these days.
+
+ * Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable
+ backend series can land.
+
+ * Error handling in the codepaths that updates refs has been
+ improved.
+
+ * The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.)
+ has been revamped.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.
(merge b8e47d1 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint).
+ * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file.
+ (merge 17a07e2 dk/blame-move-no-reason-for-1-line-context later to maint).
+
+ * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
+ submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
+ could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
+ case condition.
+ (merge d751dd1 sb/submodule-parallel-fetch later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
+ correctly.
+ (merge 695f95b nd/icase later to maint).
+
+ * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
+ is not necessarily available everywhere.
+ (merge c578a09 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
+
+ * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
+ the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
+ built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
+ potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
+ programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that
+ calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
+ make it harder to make mistakes.
+ (merge de61ceb jk/common-main later to maint).
+
+ * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
+ check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
+ (merge 03c39b3 jk/test-match-signal later to maint).
+
+ * General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
+ single-liner to a file.
+ (merge 7eb6e10 jk/write-file later to maint).
+
+ * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called
+ stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours",
+ which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
+ the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
+ contrast to "ours".
+ (merge 715a51b js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
+ unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
+ "file" did not appear in the current commit. When "file" was
+ created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
+ committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
+ (merge c66b470 mh/blame-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
+ when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
+ "file".
+ (merge 6d6a782 nd/cache-tree-ita later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
+ part, but "git push" didn't.
+ (merge 68f3c07 jk/push-scrub-url later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with
+ merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it
+ shouldn't.
+ (merge 1335d76 jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
+ suboptimal, which has been fixed.
+ (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint).
+
+ * An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
+ misbehave has been fixed.
+ (merge 044fb19 js/ignore-space-at-eol later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint).
(merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).
(merge c2691e2 ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages later to maint).
(merge 82f6178 nd/doc-new-command later to maint).
(merge fa90ab4 js/t3404-grammo-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c61b2af lf/recv-sideband-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 31471ba rs/use-strbuf-addbuf later to maint).
+ (merge 503e224 nd/test-helpers later to maint).
+ (merge 16726cf jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude later to maint).
+ (merge fd2e7da rs/worktree-use-strbuf-absolute-path later to maint).