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RelNotes: the ninth batch

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -96,6 +96,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take
the "--autostash" option.
* The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can
now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional
options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>.
* "git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault,
which is being fixed.
* "git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available
in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be
checked to also include directories on $PATH.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -143,6 +154,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
without harming them.
* An infrastructure to define what hash function is used in Git is
introduced, and an effort to plumb that throughout various
codepaths has been started.
* The code to iterate over loose object files got optimized.
* An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has
been removed, as there is no remaining callers.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -302,8 +322,19 @@ Fixes since v2.15
accept "git stash -mmessage" form.
(merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint).
* @{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state,
but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed.
(merge 75ce149575 ks/doc-checkout-previous later to maint).
* A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed.
(merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
(merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint).
(merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint).
(merge 7db2cbf4f1 jc/receive-pack-hook-doc later to maint).
(merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint).
(merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint).
(merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint).