Sixth batch for the 2.8 cycle

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt

@@ -67,6 +67,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
    material in user's keyrings.
 
+ * Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from
+   "git update-index" to "git config".
+
+ * There were a few "now I am doing this thing" progress messages in
+   the TCP connection code that can be triggered by setting a verbose
+   option internally in the code, but "git fetch -v" and friends never
+   passed the verbose option down to that codepath.
+
+ * Clean/smudge filters defined in a configuration file of lower
+   precedence can now be overridden to be a pass-through no-op by
+   setting the variable to an empty string.
+
+ * A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a
+   commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
+   given <pattern>.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -227,6 +243,30 @@ notes for details).
    CPU cycles.
    (merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint).
 
+ * "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix
+   possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a
+   worktree to different places without telling Git (the original
+   repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but
+   "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will
+   obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse
+   when triggered.
+   (merge 618244e nd/do-not-move-worktree-manually later to maint).
+
+ * The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line
+   termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that
+   are themselves CRLF line-terminated.
+   (merge 15980de js/xmerge-marker-eol later to maint).
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push
+   needed to force (or fast-forwarded).
+   (merge b2e93f8 aw/push-force-with-lease-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * The emulated "yes" command used in our test scripts has been
+   tweaked not to spend too much time generating unnecessary output
+   that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would
+   not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.
+   (merge 6129c93 js/test-lib-windows-emulated-yes 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).