who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them
confusing with the range syntax.
+ * With a configuration variable rebase.abbreviateCommands set,
+ "git rebase -i" produces the todo list with a single-letter
+ command names.
+
+ * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like
+ "git checkout" does, after the initial checkout.
+
+ * "git svn" has been updated to strip CRs in the commit messages, as
+ recent versions of Subversion rejects them.
+
+ * "git imap-send" did not correctly quote the folder name when
+ making a request to the server, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Error messages from "git rebase" have been somewhat cleaned up.
+
+ * Git has been taught to support an https:// URL used for http.proxy
+ when using recent versions of libcurl.
+
+ * "git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures
+ configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures'
+ option was given from the command line.
+
+ * "git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a
+ <commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no
tracing is requested.
+ * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the object
+ walking machinery has been taught a way to tell it to "filter" some
+ objects from enumeration.
+
+ * A few structures and variables that are implementation details of
+ the decorate API have been renamed and then the API got documented
+ better.
+
+ * Assorted updates for TravisCI integration.
+ (merge 4f26366679 sg/travis-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that
+ expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>".
+
+ * "git version --build-options" learned to report the host CPU and
+ the exact commit object name the binary was built from.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
lost.
(merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message later to maint).
+ * The "safe crlf" check incorrectly triggered for contents that does
+ not use CRLF as line endings, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 649f1f0948 tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * "git clone --shared" to borrow from a (secondary) worktree did not
+ work, even though "git clone --local" did. Both are now accepted.
+ (merge b3b05971c1 es/clone-shared-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * The build procedure now allows not just the repositories but also
+ the refs to be used to take pre-formatted manpages and html
+ documents to install.
+ (merge 65289e9dcd rb/quick-install-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Update the shell prompt script (in contrib/) to strip trailing CR
+ from strings read from various "state" files.
+ (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
+ dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
+ HEAD, which has been fixed.
+
+ * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made
+ credential helper fail.
+ (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
(merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint).
(merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint).
(merge 176b2d328c sg/setup-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge 1b09073514 rs/am-builtin-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge addcf6cfde rs/fmt-merge-msg-string-leak-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c3ff8f6c14 rs/strbuf-read-once-reset-length later to maint).
+ (merge 6b0eb884f9 db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer later to maint).
+ (merge 8c87bdfb21 jk/cvsimport-quoting later to maint).
+ (merge 176cb979fe rs/fmt-merge-msg-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 5a03360e73 tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma later to maint).
+ (merge d0e6326026 ot/pretty later to maint).
+ (merge 44103f4197 sb/test-helper-excludes later to maint).
+ (merge 170078693f jt/transport-no-more-rsync later to maint).
+ (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint).
+ (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint).
+ (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint).
+ (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint).
+ (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint).