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Fourth batch for 2.8.cycle

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2016-01-28 16:14:25 -08:00
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@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
your workflow.
* "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in
place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -62,7 +65,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* 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).
* strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier
to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should
allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to
help users on DOSsy systems.
* "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information
regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It
has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected
(e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing
only the number of changes).
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -138,6 +152,15 @@ notes for details).
now close the packs before doing so.
(merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
* A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a
regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been
corrected.
(merge 1dc413e jk/filter-branch-no-index later to maint).
* The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has
been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation.
(merge 719c3da jk/sanity 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).