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Fifth batch for 2.5 cycle

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -79,12 +79,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The Git subcommand completion (in contrib/) listed credential
helpers among candidates, which is not something the end user would
invoke interatively.
invoke interactively.
* The index file can be taught with "update-index --untracked-cache"
to optionally remember already seen untracked files, in order to
speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "unsigned char [20]" used thoughout the code to represent object
* "unsigned char [20]" used throughout the code to represent object
names are being converted into a semi-opaque "struct object_id".
This effort is expected to interfere with other topics in flight,
but hopefully will give us one extra level of abstraction in the
@ -180,9 +184,9 @@ notes for details).
* Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git()
call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the
state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history
with LF line ending to make their project portabile across
platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with
CRLF for their platform.
with LF line ending to make their project portable across platforms
while terminating lines in their working tree files with CRLF for
their platform.
(merge 4bf256d tb/blame-resurrect-convert-to-git later to maint).
* We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
@ -208,7 +212,7 @@ notes for details).
(merge 27547e5 cn/bom-in-gitignore later to maint).
* a few helper scripts in the test suite did not report errors
correcty.
correctly.
(merge de248e9 ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report later to maint).
* The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"
@ -308,6 +312,24 @@ notes for details).
(merge ad3967a jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).
(merge 975e382 ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).
* The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred
pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory
enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation
size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough.
(merge 599dc76 rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps later to maint).
* The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff
configuration, but it didn't.
(merge db9bb28 pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff later to maint).
* "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but
"git pull --log=20" did not.
(merge 5061a44 pt/pull-log-n later to maint).
* "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a
cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead.
(merge 0544574 jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled later to maint).
* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
(merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
(merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).