Git 2.19-rc2

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

Junio C Hamano committed Sep 4, 2018 at 14:33 UTC c05048d43925ab8edcb36663752c2b4541911231
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
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@@ -267,6 +267,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
267 config.txt file but are described in another file that is included
268 by it, which has been corrected.
269
270 + * The test linter code has learned that the end of here-doc mark
271 + "EOF" can be quoted in a double-quote pair, not just in a
272 + single-quote pair.
273 +
274 +
275 Fixes since v2.18
276 -----------------
277
@@ -556,6 +561,23 @@ Fixes since v2.18
561 which has been fixed.
562 (merge 9bf5d4c4e2 nd/config-core-checkstat-doc later to maint).
563
564 + * Recent "git rebase -i" update started to write bogusly formatted
565 + author-script, with a matching broken reading code. These are
566 + fixed.
567 +
568 + * Recent addition of "directory rename" heuristics to the
569 + merge-recursive backend makes the command susceptible to false
570 + positives and false negatives. In the context of "git am -3",
571 + which does not know about surrounding unmodified paths and thus
572 + cannot inform the merge machinery about the full trees involved,
573 + this risk is particularly severe. As such, the heuristic is
574 + disabled for "git am -3" to keep the machinery "more stupid but
575 + predictable".
576 +
577 + * "git merge-base" in 2.19-rc1 has performance regression when the
578 + (experimental) commit-graph feature is in use, which has been
579 + mitigated.
580 +
581 * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
582 (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
583 (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
@@ -598,3 +620,4 @@ Fixes since v2.18
620 (merge 79b04f9b60 sg/t3903-missing-fix later to maint).
621 (merge 2745817028 sg/t3420-autostash-fix later to maint).
622 (merge 7afb0d6777 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).
623 + (merge 6c6ce21baa es/freebsd-iconv-portability later to maint).