cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
disabled.
+ * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking
+ "rebase -i".
+
+ * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory
+ configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be
+ omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
+ your workflow.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment
and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias.
+ * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has
+ been updated to share more code with the code that deals with
+ normal references.
+ (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint).
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good.
(merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint).
+ * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not
+ ignore the exit code from "gc --auto".
+ (merge 8c24f5b jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase later to maint).
+
+ * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles
+ mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not
+ friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They
+ now close the packs before doing so.
+ (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).