been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
the given pathspec.
+ * When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body
+ header and it uses the RFC2822 header folding, "git am" failed to
+ put the header line back into a single logical line. The
+ underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
+
+ * "gitweb" can spawn "highlight" to show blob contents with
+ (programming) language-specific syntax highlighting, but only
+ when the language is known. "highlight" can however be told
+ to make the guess itself by giving it "--force" option, which
+ has been enabled.
+
+ * "git gui" l10n to Portuguese.
+
+ * When given an abbreviated object name that is not (or more
+ realistically, "no longer") unique, we gave a fatal error
+ "ambiguous argument". This error is now accompanied by hints that
+ lists the objects that begins with the given prefix. During the
+ course of development of this new feature, numerous minor bugs were
+ uncovered and corrected, the most notable one of which is that we
+ gave "short SHA1 xxxx is ambiguous." twice without good reason.
+
+ * "git log rev^..rev" is an often-used revision range specification
+ to show what was done on a side branch merged at rev. This has
+ gained a short-hand "rev^-1". In general "rev^-$n" is the same as
+ "^rev^$n rev", i.e. what has happened on other branches while the
+ history leading to nth parent was looking the other way.
+
+ * In recent versions of cURL, GSSAPI credential delegation is
+ disabled by default due to CVE-2011-2192; introduce a configuration
+ to selectively allow enabling this.
+ (merge 26a7b23429 ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation later to maint).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
existing pack bitmap; now they are and as the result they have
become faster.
+ * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has
+ been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
recent update, which has been corrected.
+ * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors
+ that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions
+ it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed.
+ (merge a9445d859e jk/verify-packfile-gently later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository
+ it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a
+ mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches.
+ This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due
+ to a design bug, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint).
+
+ * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
+ e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
+ field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
+ (merge c375a7efa3 jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null later to maint).
+
+ * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that
+ ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored
+ the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the
+ default set of configuration variables to correct this.
+ (merge d49028e6e7 jc/worktree-config later to maint).
+
+ * "git init" tried to record core.worktree in the repository's
+ 'config' file when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable was set and
+ it was different from where GIT_DIR appears as ".git" at its top,
+ but the logic was faulty when .git is a "gitdir:" file that points
+ at the real place, causing trouble in working trees that are
+ managed by "git worktree". This has been corrected.
+
+ * Codepaths that read from an on-disk loose object were too loose in
+ validating what they are reading is a proper object file and
+ sometimes read past the data they read from the disk, which has
+ been corrected. H/t to Gustavo Grieco for reporting.
+ (merge d21f842690 jc/verify-loose-object-header later to maint).
+
+ * The original command line syntax for "git merge", which was "git
+ merge <msg> HEAD <parent>...", has been deprecated for quite some
+ time, and "git gui" was the last in-tree user of the syntax. This
+ is finally fixed, so that we can move forward with the deprecation.
+ (merge ff65e796f0 rs/git-gui-use-modern-git-merge-syntax later to maint).
+
+ * An author name, that spelled a backslash-quoted double quote in the
+ human readable part "My \"double quoted\" name", was not unquoted
+ correctly while applying a patch from a piece of e-mail.
+ (merge f357e5de31 kd/mailinfo-quoted-string later to maint).
+
+ * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does.
+ (merge 04be69478f pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count later to maint).
+
+ * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default
+ setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into
+ underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason.
+ (merge 5293284b4d jc/blame-abbrev later to maint).
+
+ * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of
+ output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which
+ has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody
+ tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though.
+ (merge 1647793524 jk/graph-padding-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command
+ has seen a micro-optimization.
+ (merge e94ce1394e sg/ref-filter-parse-optim later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).
(merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).
(merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint).
(merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint).
(merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint).
+ (merge 45ccef87b3 rs/copy-array later to maint).
+ (merge 8201688ecd dt/mailinfo later to maint).