remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was
manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort".
+ * "git clone --reference $there --recurse-submodules $super" has been
+ taught to guess repositories usable as references for submodules of
+ $super that are embedded in $there while making a clone of the
+ superproject borrow objects from $there; extend the mechanism to
+ also allow submodules of these submodules to borrow repositories
+ embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of
+ the superproject.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff.
(merge 6cf5f6cef7 da/mergetool-xxdiff-hotkey later to maint).
+ * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back
+ to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when
+ the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user
+ did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt
+ the operation.
+ (merge ce73bb22d8 sb/sequencer-abort-safety later to maint).
+
+ * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation.
+ (merge 649b0c316a nd/shallow-fixup later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage
+ objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot
+ have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn
+ made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This
+ has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when
+ appending such a path to the colon-separated list.
+ (merge 5e74824fac jk/quote-env-path-list-component later to maint).
+
+ * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:"
+ before the custom message programs give, when they want to die
+ with a message about wrong command line options followed by the
+ standard usage string.
+ (merge 87433261a4 jk/parseopt-usage-msg-opt later to maint).
+
+ * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository,
+ but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that
+ corresponds to a packfile does not.
+ (merge 29401e1575 jk/index-pack-wo-repo-from-stdin later to maint).
+
+ * Fix for NDEBUG builds.
+ (merge 08414938a2 jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint).
(merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).