Seventh batch for 2.13

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

Junio C Hamano committed Mar 24, 2017 at 13:30 UTC ea5b2dd28f7dc6e0f331af2aad13e281e7a9a408
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
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@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Backward compatibility notes.
15 has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
16 future release.
17
18 + * The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the
19 + socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has
20 + been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket".
21 +
22
23 Updates since v2.12
24 -------------------
@@ -195,6 +199,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
199 use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
200 facility.
201
202 + * The "debug" helper used in the test framework learned to run
203 + a command under "gdb" interactively.
204 + (merge 59210dd56c sg/test-with-stdin later to maint).
205 +
206 + * The "detect attempt to create collisions" variant of SHA-1
207 + implementation by Marc Stevens (CWI) and Dan Shumow (Microsoft)
208 + has been integrated and made the default.
209
210 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
211
@@ -202,7 +213,7 @@ Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
213 Fixes since v2.12
214 -----------------
215
205 -Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance
216 +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.12 in the maintenance
217 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
218 notes for details).
219
@@ -213,14 +224,12 @@ notes for details).
224 * The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev>
225 [[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs
226 have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev).
216 - (merge 131f3c96d2 jk/grep-no-index-fix later to maint).
227
228 * "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work
229 without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent
230 updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called
231 .git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a
232 repository. Stop doing so.
223 - (merge 4b0c3c7735 jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir later to maint).
233
234 * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
235 in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
@@ -245,7 +254,6 @@ notes for details).
254 * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
255 variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
256 been fixed.
248 - (merge 1274a155af jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2 later to maint).
257
258 * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently
259 error out, but didn't.
@@ -315,7 +323,6 @@ notes for details).
323
324 * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
325 when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
318 - (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint).
326
327 * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
328 response, which has been fixed.
@@ -333,16 +340,29 @@ notes for details).
340 * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
341 few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
342
343 + * "git revert -m 0 $merge_commit" complained that reverting a merge
344 + needs to say relative to which parent the reversion needs to
345 + happen, as if "-m 0" weren't given. The correct diagnosis is that
346 + "-m 0" does not refer to the first parent ("-m 1" does). This has
347 + been fixed.
348 +
349 * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the
350 variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing
351 misconfiguration.
339 - (merge 5ea304896e sb/submodule-config-parse-ignore-fix later to maint).
352 +
353 + * Fix for NO_PTHREADS build.
354 + (merge 7b91929ba0 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint).
355 +
356 + * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also
357 + v2.10.2) to "git log --pickaxe-regex -S".
358 + (merge f53c5de29c js/regexec-buf later to maint).
359
360 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
361 (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint).
362 (merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint).
363 (merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint).
364 (merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint).
346 - (merge 2c7ee986c7 ab/doc-no-option-notation-fix later to maint).
347 - (merge e4e016f65d ab/push-default-doc-fix later to maint).
348 - (merge baced9e4e5 nd/commit-hook-doc-fix later to maint).
365 + (merge e94eac49e6 rs/http-push-cleanup later to maint).
366 + (merge ba6746c08f rs/path-name-safety-cleanup later to maint).
367 + (merge d41626ff9e rs/shortlog-cleanup later to maint).
368 + (merge dce96c41f9 rs/update-hook-optim later to maint).