grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
index 6a331587e4ab61cf8a436dd0f3bb57f8d46a87bd..a06ccf6e2a2619df17ecb8525bb28a2f53423e7f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
@@ -126,9 +126,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/)
    has been updated.
 
- * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
-   throughout the object access API continues.
-
  * Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah
    bitmap subsystem.
 
@@ -267,6 +264,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    config.txt file but are described in another file that is included
    by it, which has been corrected.
 
+ * The test linter code has learned that the end of here-doc mark
+   "EOF" can be quoted in a double-quote pair, not just in a
+   single-quote pair.
+
+
 Fixes since v2.18
 -----------------
 
@@ -311,11 +313,6 @@ Fixes since v2.18
    to the submodule was changed in the range of commits in the
    superproject, sometimes showing "(null)".  This has been corrected.
 
- * "git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that
-   indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated
-   working tree across various state transitions, which has been
-   corrected.
-
  * Bugfix for "rebase -i" corner case regression.
    (merge a9279c6785 pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict later to maint).
 
@@ -556,6 +553,23 @@ Fixes since v2.18
    which has been fixed.
    (merge 9bf5d4c4e2 nd/config-core-checkstat-doc later to maint).
 
+ * Recent "git rebase -i" update started to write bogusly formatted
+   author-script, with a matching broken reading code.  These are
+   fixed.
+
+ * Recent addition of "directory rename" heuristics to the
+   merge-recursive backend makes the command susceptible to false
+   positives and false negatives.  In the context of "git am -3",
+   which does not know about surrounding unmodified paths and thus
+   cannot inform the merge machinery about the full trees involved,
+   this risk is particularly severe.  As such, the heuristic is
+   disabled for "git am -3" to keep the machinery "more stupid but
+   predictable".
+
+ * "git merge-base" in 2.19-rc1 has performance regression when the
+   (experimental) commit-graph feature is in use, which has been
+   mitigated.
+
  * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
    (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
@@ -598,3 +612,4 @@ Fixes since v2.18
    (merge 79b04f9b60 sg/t3903-missing-fix later to maint).
    (merge 2745817028 sg/t3420-autostash-fix later to maint).
    (merge 7afb0d6777 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 6c6ce21baa es/freebsd-iconv-portability later to maint).