operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the
cache is properly invalidated).
+ * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
+ (merge 8df4c2953f ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup later to maint).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively.
(merge 0ead000c3a dk/send-email-avoid-net-smtp-ssl-when-able later to maint).
+ * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no
+ slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as
+ that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem.
+ (merge d9244ecf4f js/bs-is-a-dir-sep-on-windows later to maint).
+
+ * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
+ even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
+ "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files
+ without "-uall". These have been corrected.
+ (merge 6b1db43109 sl/clean-d-ignored-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff
+ $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full
+ object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to
+ use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes.
+ (merge 30d005c020 jk/diff-blob later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).
(merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).
(merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint).
(merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint).
(merge c5a9157393 jh/memihash-opt later to maint).
+ (merge 80f4cd8046 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
+ (merge b275da816c ah/doc-interpret-trailers-ifexists later to maint).
+ (merge fc7a5edb55 ah/doc-pretty-format-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7e95fcb4b5 sb/t5531-update-desc later to maint).