The third batch for 2.18

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

Junio C Hamano committed Apr 11, 2018 at 13:13 UTC 26e47e261e969491ad4e3b6c298450c061749c9e
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
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18 the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to
19 rewrite from other error cases.
20
21 + * When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify
22 + "tlsv1.3" as its value.
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25 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -57,6 +59,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
59 * The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line
60 completion continues to get extended and polished.
61
62 + * Copies of old scripted Porcelain commands in contrib/examples/ have
63 + been removed.
64 +
65 + * Some tests that rely on the exact hardcoded values of object names
66 + have been updated in preparation for hash function migration.
67 +
68 + * Perf-test update.
69 +
70 + * Test helper update.
71 +
72 + * The effort continues to refactor the internal global data structure
73 + to make it possible to open multiple repositories, work with and
74 + then close them,
75 +
76 + * Small test-helper programs have been consolidated into a single
77 + binary.
78 +
79 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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106 corrected.
107 (merge f78ab355e7 yk/filter-branch-non-committish-refs later to maint).
108
109 + * "git submodule status" misbehaved on a submodule that has been
110 + removed from the working tree.
111 + (merge 74b6bda32f rs/status-with-removed-submodule later to maint).
112 +
113 + * When credential helper exits very quickly without reading its
114 + input, it used to cause Git to die with SIGPIPE, which has been
115 + fixed.
116 + (merge a0d51e8d0e eb/cred-helper-ignore-sigpipe later to maint).
117 +
118 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
119 (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
120 (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
121 + (merge 5988eb631a ab/doc-hash-brokenness later to maint).
122 + (merge a4d4e32a70 pk/test-avoid-pipe-hiding-exit-status later to maint).