Fourth batch for 2.12

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

Junio C Hamano committed Dec 27, 2016 at 09:17 UTC e05806da9ec4aff8adfed142ab2a2b3b02e33c8c
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
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@@ -43,6 +43,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
43 embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of
44 the superproject.
45
46 + * Porcelain scripts written in Perl are getting internationalized.
47 +
48 + * "git merge --continue" has been added as a synonym to "git commit"
49 + to conclude a merge that has stopped due to conflicts.
50 +
51 + * Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports
52 + during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration
53 + mechanism.
54 +
55 + * "git shortlog" learned "--committer" option to group commits by
56 + committer, instead of author.
57 +
58 + * GitLFS integration with "git p4" has been updated.
59 +
60 + * The isatty() emulation for Windows has been updated to eradicate
61 + the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC
62 + runtime.
63 +
64
65 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
66
@@ -202,6 +220,28 @@ notes for details).
220 * Fix for NDEBUG builds.
221 (merge 08414938a2 jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers later to maint).
222
223 + * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully
224 + specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream'
225 + push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors.
226 + (merge b284495e93 jc/push-default-explicit later to maint).
227 +
228 + * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link.
229 + (merge df8a9e86db ld/p4-compare-dir-vs-symlink later to maint).
230 +
231 + * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running
232 + "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This
233 + has been fixed.
234 + (merge ce6926974e jk/difftool-in-subdir later to maint).
235 +
236 + * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist
237 + that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed
238 + by many empty commits. This has been fixed.
239 + (merge 9943e5b979 gv/p4-multi-path-commit-fix later to maint).
240 +
241 + * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been
242 + fixed.
243 + (merge c46458e82f mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix later to maint).
244 +
245 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
246 (merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint).
247 (merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
@@ -211,3 +251,5 @@ notes for details).
251 (merge 9e189f1a5c sb/t3600-cleanup later to maint).
252 (merge e2c20be57c lr/doc-fix-cet later to maint).
253 (merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint).
254 + (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
255 + (merge 7eeda8b821 ls/filter-process later to maint).