Sixth batch for 2.11

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

Junio C Hamano committed Sep 29, 2016 at 16:58 UTC 641b158a285999287f5e0f88155910d9ac27165a
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt
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54 been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
55 the given pathspec.
56
57 + * When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body
58 + header and it uses the RFC2822 header folding, "git am" failed to
59 + put the header line back into a single logical line. The
60 + underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
61 +
62
63 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
64
@@ -261,6 +266,29 @@ notes for details).
266 * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
267 recent update, which has been corrected.
268
269 + * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors
270 + that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions
271 + it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed.
272 + (merge a9445d859e jk/verify-packfile-gently later to maint).
273 +
274 + * When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository
275 + it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a
276 + mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches.
277 + This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due
278 + to a design bug, which has been fixed.
279 + (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint).
280 +
281 + * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
282 + e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
283 + field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
284 + (merge c375a7efa3 jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null later to maint).
285 +
286 + * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that
287 + ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored
288 + the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the
289 + default set of configuration variables to correct this.
290 + (merge d49028e6e7 jc/worktree-config later to maint).
291 +
292 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
293 (merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).
294 (merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).