Fourth batch for 2.19 cycle

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jul 24, 2018 at 14:59 UTC ffc6fa0e396238de3a30623912980263b4f283ab
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
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@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
24 is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the
25 future repurposing of the it when it is used.
26
27 + * The userdiff pattern for .php has been updated.
28 +
29 + * The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends
30 + out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an
31 + overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to
32 + automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line
33 + in the payload has been introduced and is made the default.
34 +
35
36 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
37
@@ -72,6 +80,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
80 file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration
81 files, to read random configuration items from it.
82
83 + * "git fast-import" has been updated to avoid attempting to create
84 + delta against a zero-byte-long string, which is pointless.
85 +
86 + * The codebase has been updated to compile cleanly with -pedantic
87 + option.
88 + (merge 2b647a05d7 bb/pedantic later to maint).
89 +
90 + * The character display width table has been updated to match the
91 + latest Unicode standard.
92 + (merge 570951eea2 bb/unicode-11-width later to maint).
93 +
94 + * test-lint now looks for broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in test
95 + scripts.
96 +
97
98 Fixes since v2.18
99 -----------------
@@ -145,6 +167,62 @@ Fixes since v2.18
167 not turn a case-incapable filesystem into a case-capable one.
168 (merge 48294b512a ms/core-icase-doc later to maint).
169
170 + * "fsck.skipList" did not prevent a blob object listed there from
171 + being inspected for is contents (e.g. we recently started to
172 + inspect the contents of ".gitmodules" for certain malicious
173 + patterns), which has been corrected.
174 + (merge fb16287719 rj/submodule-fsck-skip later to maint).
175 +
176 + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules another-branch" did not report
177 + in which submodule it failed to update the working tree, which
178 + resulted in an unhelpful error message.
179 + (merge ba95d4e4bd sb/submodule-move-head-error-msg later to maint).
180 +
181 + * "git rebase" behaved slightly differently depending on which one of
182 + the three backends gets used; this has been documented and an
183 + effort to make them more uniform has begun.
184 + (merge b00bf1c9a8 en/rebase-consistency later to maint).
185 +
186 + * The "--ignore-case" option of "git for-each-ref" (and its friends)
187 + did not work correctly, which has been fixed.
188 + (merge e674eb2528 jk/for-each-ref-icase later to maint).
189 +
190 + * "git fetch" failed to correctly validate the set of objects it
191 + received when making a shallow history deeper, which has been
192 + corrected.
193 + (merge cf1e7c0770 jt/connectivity-check-after-unshallow later to maint).
194 +
195 + * Partial clone support of "git clone" has been updated to correctly
196 + validate the objects it receives from the other side. The server
197 + side has been corrected to send objects that are directly
198 + requested, even if they may match the filtering criteria (e.g. when
199 + doing a "lazy blob" partial clone).
200 + (merge a7e67c11b8 jt/partial-clone-fsck-connectivity later to maint).
201 +
202 + * Handling of an empty range by "git cherry-pick" was inconsistent
203 + depending on how the range ended up to be empty, which has been
204 + corrected.
205 + (merge c5e358d073 jk/empty-pick-fix later to maint).
206 +
207 + * "git reset --merge" (hence "git merge ---abort") and "git reset --hard"
208 + had trouble working correctly in a sparsely checked out working
209 + tree after a conflict, which has been corrected.
210 + (merge b33fdfc34c mk/merge-in-sparse-checkout later to maint).
211 +
212 + * Correct a broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in a test.
213 + (merge 650161a277 jc/t3404-one-shot-export-fix later to maint).
214 +
215 + * "git rev-parse ':/substring'" did not consider the history leading
216 + only to HEAD when looking for a commit with the given substring,
217 + when the HEAD is detached. This has been fixed.
218 + (merge 6b3351e799 wc/find-commit-with-pattern-on-detached-head later to maint).
219 +
220 + * Build doc update for Windows.
221 + (merge ede8d89bb1 nd/command-list later to maint).
222 +
223 + * core.commentchar is now honored when preparing the list of commits
224 + to replay in "rebase -i".
225 +
226 * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
227 (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
228 (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
@@ -157,3 +235,5 @@ Fixes since v2.18
235 (merge 51d1863168 tz/exclude-doc-smallfixes later to maint).
236 (merge a9aa3c0927 ds/commit-graph later to maint).
237 (merge 5cf8e06474 js/enhanced-version-info later to maint).
238 + (merge 6aaded5509 tb/config-default later to maint).
239 + (merge 022d2ac1f3 sb/blame-color later to maint).