UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "git grep" and "git show" pays attention to "--textconv" option
+ when these commands are told to operate on blob objects (e.g. "git
+ grep -e pattern HEAD:Makefile").
+
* "git replace" helper no longer allows an object to be replaced with
another object of a different type to avoid confusion (you can
still manually craft such replacement using "git update-ref", as an
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * "git repack" is now written in C.
+
* Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.
* If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "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.
+ (merge 643f918 jk/clone-progress-to-stderr later to maint).
+
+ * "format-patch --from=<whom>" forgot to omit unnecessary in-body
+ from line, i.e. when <whom> is the same as the real author.
+ (merge 662cc30 jk/format-patch-from later to maint).
+
* "git shortlog" used to choke and die when there is a malformed
commit (e.g. missing authors); it now simply ignore such a commit
and keeps going.