Fourth batch for 2.7

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

Junio C Hamano committed Oct 15, 2015 at 15:48 UTC a838ae9d49d8917781ada5c3f41504dac288df04
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt
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@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
45 appears in the same .gitignore file to make it easier to express
46 "everything in /abc directory is ignored, except for ...".
47
48 + * Teach "git p4" to send large blobs outside the repository by
49 + talking to Git LFS.
50 +
51
52 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
53
@@ -67,6 +70,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
70 been improved to mark the side-band communication specifically.
71 (merge fd89433 jk/async-pkt-line later to maint).
72
73 + * Update "git branch" that list existing branches, using the
74 + ref-filter API that is shared with "git tag" and "git
75 + for-each-ref".
76 +
77
78 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
79
@@ -125,9 +132,80 @@ notes for details).
132 DWIMmed was not clearly documented.
133 (merge e14c92e jk/notes-dwim-doc later to maint).
134
135 + * "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling
136 + (e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you
137 + cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune").
138 + (merge 14886b4 js/gc-with-stale-symref later to maint).
139 +
140 + * "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the
141 + end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the
142 + packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that
143 + cannot remove a file that is still open.
144 + (merge 786b150 js/clone-dissociate later to maint).
145 +
146 + * Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log"
147 + documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation.
148 + (merge fd8d07e dt/log-follow-config later to maint).
149 +
150 + * "git rebase -i" had a minor regression recently, which stopped
151 + considering a line that begins with an indented '#' in its insn
152 + sheet not a comment, which is now fixed.
153 + (merge 1db168e gr/rebase-i-drop-warn later to maint).
154 +
155 + * After "git checkout --detach", "git status" reported a fairly
156 + useless "HEAD detached at HEAD", instead of saying at which exact
157 + commit.
158 + (merge 0eb8548 mm/detach-at-HEAD-reflog later to maint).
159 +
160 + * When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL,
161 + Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the
162 + same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line
163 + at a time to work around the problem.
164 + (merge f60c483 sa/send-email-smtp-batch-data-limit later to maint).
165 +
166 + * When "git am" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying
167 + attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed.
168 + (merge 434c64d pt/am-builtin later to maint).
169 +
170 + * It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git
171 + worktree add" as a local source of "git clone".
172 + (merge d78db84 nd/clone-linked-checkout later to maint).
173 +
174 + * On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable
175 + using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem
176 + thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree.
177 + (merge 63ec5e1 js/icase-wt-detection later to maint).
178 +
179 + * Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git.
180 + (merge 31cd128 sb/perf-without-installed-git later to maint).
181 +
182 + * A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug,
183 + which was fixed.
184 + (merge 362d8b6 sb/http-flaky-test-fix later to maint).
185 +
186 + * There were some classes of errors that "git fsck" diagnosed to its
187 + standard error that did not cause it to exit with non-zero status.
188 + (merge 122f76f jc/fsck-dropped-errors later to maint).
189 +
190 + * Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents
191 + in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM.
192 + (merge 1f5f390 ls/p4-translation-failure later to maint).
193 +
194 + * When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is
195 + lost. Save it to a file in $GIT_DIR and show it next time the "gc
196 + --auto" is run.
197 + (merge 329e6e8 nd/gc-auto-background-fix later to maint).
198 +
199 + * The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate
200 + work trees created via "git worktree add".
201 + (merge 11f9dd7 mk/submodule-gitdir-path later to maint).
202 +
203 * Code clean-up and minor fixes.
204 (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
205 (merge b744767 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).
206 (merge 29bc480 nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option later to maint).
207 (merge be510e0 jk/asciidoctor-section-heading-markup-fix later to maint).
208 (merge 83e6bda tk/typofix-connect-unknown-proto-error later to maint).
209 + (merge a43eb67 tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo later to maint).
210 + (merge ba128e2 es/worktree-add-cleanup later to maint).
211 + (merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint).