Seventh batch for post 2.8 cycle

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

Junio C Hamano committed Apr 25, 2016 at 15:18 UTC e1f0df79a825325731d58784f0900358012a2e39
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
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@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
84 formulating a message ID.
85 (merge f916ab0 ew/send-email-readable-message-id later to maint).
86
87 + * "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict
88 + signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was
89 + no way to record these separate resolutions.
90 + (merge 890fca8 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
91 +
92
93 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
94
@@ -124,6 +129,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
129 Git repository.
130 (merge 274db84 jk/check-repository-format later to maint).
131
132 + * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable
133 + refs backends.
134 +
135
136 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
137
@@ -254,6 +262,20 @@ notes for details).
262 See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
263 (merge e53a64b ad/cygwin-wants-rename later to maint).
264
265 + * "merge-octopus" strategy did not ensure that the index is clean
266 + when merge begins.
267 +
268 + * When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at
269 + the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting
270 + tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to
271 + update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later
272 + operations.
273 +
274 + * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
275 + recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
276 + from the root level of the superproject.
277 + (merge 2ab5660 sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs later to maint).
278 +
279 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
280 (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
281 (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).