* The use of 'good/bad' in "git bisect" made it confusing to use when
hunting for a state change that is not a regression (e.g. bugfix).
The command learned 'old/new' and then allows the end user to
- say e.g. "bisect start --term-old=fast --term=new=slow" to find a
+ say e.g. "bisect start --term-old=fast --term-new=slow" to find a
performance regression.
* "git interpret-trailers" can now run outside of a Git repository.
work trees created via "git worktree add".
(merge 11f9dd7 mk/submodule-gitdir-path later to maint).
+ * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in
+ grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no
+ grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is
+ quiescent.
+ (merge fae1a90 jc/doc-gc-prune-now later to maint).
+
+ * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit
+ object header, which is fixed.
+ (merge a5a4b3f jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line later to maint).
+
+ * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end
+ of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that,
+ but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash.
+ (merge b2a7123 rd/test-path-utils later to maint).
+
* Code clean-up and minor fixes.
(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
(merge b744767 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).
(merge a43eb67 tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo later to maint).
(merge ba128e2 es/worktree-add-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint).
+ (merge 147875f sb/submodule-config-parse later to maint).