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 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).