The second batch

The most significant of this batch is of course "merge -sort". Thanks, Elijah and everybody who helped the topic. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Aug 30, 2021 at 16:06 UTC 6c40894d2466d4e7fddc047a05116aa9d14712ee
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
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10 location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is
11 $(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)".
12
13 + * Use `ort` instead of `recursive` as the default merge strategy.
14 +
15 + * The userdiff pattern for "java" language has been updated.
16 +
17
18 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -32,6 +36,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
36 "git fetch-pack" has been optimized by taking advantage of the
37 commit graph when available.
38
39 + * Remind developers that the userdiff patterns should be kept simple
40 + and permissive, assuming that the contents they apply are always
41 + syntactically correct.
42 +
43 + * The current implementation of GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is broken in
44 + that checking for the lack of a prerequisite would not work. Avoid
45 + the use of "if ! test_have_prereq X" in a test script.
46 +
47
48 Fixes since v2.33
49 -----------------
@@ -44,5 +56,22 @@ Fixes since v2.33
56 push" code path.
57 (merge 82823118b9 jt/push-negotiation-fixes later to maint).
58
59 + * "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
60 + around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
61 + but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
62 + descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
63 + (merge 6f843a3355 en/pull-conflicting-options later to maint).
64 +
65 + * "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
66 + binary hunks.
67 + (merge 46d723ce57 jk/apply-binary-hunk-parsing-fix later to maint).
68 +
69 + * "git range-diff" code clean-up.
70 + (merge c4d5907324 jk/range-diff-fixes later to maint).
71 +
72 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
73 (merge 1d9c8daef8 ab/bundle-doc later to maint).
74 + (merge 81483fe613 en/merge-strategy-docs later to maint).
75 + (merge 626beebdf8 js/log-protocol-version later to maint).
76 + (merge 00e302da76 cb/builtin-merge-format-string-fix later to maint).
77 + (merge ad51ae4dc0 cb/ci-freebsd-update later to maint).