to be used in a rare event that merges histories of two projects
that started their lives independently.
+ * "git pull" has been taught to pass --allow-unrelated-histories
+ option to underlying "git merge".
+
* "git apply -v" learned to report paths in the patch that were
skipped via --include/--exclude mechanism or being outside the
current working directory.
such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,
"--no-expand-tabs".
+ * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when
+ formulating a message ID.
+ (merge f916ab0 ew/send-email-readable-message-id later to maint).
+
+ * "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict
+ signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was
+ no way to record these separate resolutions.
+ (merge 890fca8 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
Git repository.
(merge 274db84 jk/check-repository-format later to maint).
+ * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
+ refs backends.
+
+ * Sources to many test helper binaries (and the generated helpers)
+ have been moved to t/helper/ subdirectory to reduce clutter at the
+ top level of the tree.
+
+ Note that this can break your tests if you check out revisions
+ across the merge boundary of this topic, e0b58519 (Merge branch
+ 'nd/test-helpers', 2016-04-29), as bin-wrappers/test-* are not
+ rebuilt to point the underlying executables. For now, "make
+ distclean" is your friend.
+
+ * Unify internal logic between "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag"
+ commands by making one directly call into the other.
+ (merge bef234b st/verify-tag later to maint).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
which was wrong.
(merge f292244 ky/branch-d-worktree later to maint).
+ * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -m" renamed a
+ branch that is checked out in another worktree without adjusting
+ the HEAD symbolic ref for the worktree.
+ (merge 18eb3a9 ky/branch-m-worktree later to maint).
+
* "git diff -M" used to work better when two originally identical
files A and B got renamed to X/A and X/B by pairing A to X/A and B
to X/B, but this was broken in the 2.0 timeframe.
corrected.
(merge a08feb8 tb/blame-force-read-cache-to-workaround-safe-crlf later to maint).
+ * A change back in version 2.7 to "git branch" broke display of a
+ symbolic ref in a non-standard place in the refs/ hierarchy (we
+ expect symbolic refs to appear in refs/remotes/*/HEAD to point at
+ the primary branch the remote has, and as .git/HEAD to point at the
+ branch we locally checked out).
+ (merge 95c38fb jk/branch-shortening-funny-symrefs later to maint).
+
+ * A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed
+ the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real
+ repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 1f15ba1 sb/submodule-helper-clone-regression-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message
+ is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected.
+ (merge 27014cb ad/commit-have-m-option later to maint).
+
+ * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did
+ not work well.
+ (merge eb94ee7 ky/imap-send later to maint).
+
+ * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
+ we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
+ (merge 1245c74 ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0 later to maint).
+
+ * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
+ that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
+ (merge 87f8a0b jc/http-socks5h later to maint).
+
+ * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
+ printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
+ (merge 1cae428 jk/do-not-printf-NULL later to maint).
+
+ * On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then
+ rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary,
+ hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary"
+ pattern.
+
+ This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
+ already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also
+ has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
+ See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
+ (merge e53a64b ad/cygwin-wants-rename later to maint).
+
+ * "merge-octopus" strategy did not ensure that the index is clean
+ when merge begins.
+
+ * When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at
+ the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting
+ tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to
+ update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later
+ operations.
+
+ * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
+ recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
+ from the root level of the superproject.
+ (merge 2ab5660 sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs later to maint).
+
+ * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
+ if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
+ its check was not done early enough and allowed another error to
+ trigger, reporting that the default value we guessed from the
+ system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
+ experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
+ relying on the auto-detection at all.
+ (merge d3c06c1 da/user-useconfigonly later to maint).
+
+ * "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives
+ as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly.
+ (merge a127331 sb/mv-submodule-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration.
+ (merge 36b1437 js/replace-edit-use-editor-configuration later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large
+ number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices
+ for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
+ after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
+ failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
+ (merge c4b2751 jk/push-client-deadlock-fix later to maint).
+
+ * mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized and work better without
+ consuming paging store when not needed.
+ (merge d5425d1 js/win32-mmap later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
(merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).
(merge 8e9b208 js/mingw-tests-2.8 later to maint).
(merge d55de70 jc/makefile-redirection-stderr later to maint).
(merge 4232b21 ep/trace-doc-sample-fix later to maint).
+ (merge ef8c95e ew/send-email-drop-data-dumper later to maint).
+ (merge 24041d6 jc/xstrfmt-null-with-prec-0 later to maint).
+ (merge 7bec7f5 jk/use-write-script-more later to maint).