Eighth batch for 2.7

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

Junio C Hamano committed Oct 29, 2015 at 14:02 UTC 80980a1d5c2678ab9031d7c60faf38b9631eb1ce
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt
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@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
97 of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API.
98 (merge bed4452 tk/stripspace later to maint).
99
100 + * "git am" used to spawn "git mailinfo" via run_command() API once
101 + per each patch, but learned to make a direct call to mailinfo()
102 + instead.
103 +
104 + * The implementation of "git mailinfo" was refactored so that a
105 + mailinfo() function can be directly called from inside a process.
106 +
107
108 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
109
@@ -258,7 +265,20 @@ notes for details).
265 never die, which is not the case (yet).
266 (merge c63d4b2 jc/am-3-fallback-regression-fix later to maint).
267
261 - * Code clean-up and minor fixes.
268 + * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl.
269 + (merge 7e91e8d rp/link-curl-before-ssl later to maint).
270 +
271 + * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive
272 + filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem
273 + cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a
274 + randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its
275 + ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the
276 + cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free.
277 + This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of
278 + borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat.
279 + (merge 41284eb dt/name-hash-dir-entry-fix later to maint).
280 +
281 + * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.
282 (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
283 (merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).
284 (merge 29bc480 nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option later to maint).
@@ -269,3 +289,6 @@ notes for details).
289 (merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint).
290 (merge 147875f sb/submodule-config-parse later to maint).
291 (merge ae9f274 es/worktree-add later to maint).
292 + (merge 3b19dba jc/em-dash-in-doc later to maint).
293 + (merge f3f38c7 jc/everyday-markup later to maint).
294 + (merge 77d5f71 xf/user-manual-markup later to maint).