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/.
+
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).
+
* 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).