* The commands in the "diff" family learned to honor "diff.relative"
configuration variable.
+ * The check in "git fsck" to ensure that the tree objects are sorted
+ still had corner cases it missed unsorted entries.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
time. Start using -Wno-universal-initializer option to squelch
it (the latest sparse has it on by default).
+ * "git log -L..." now takes advantage of the "which paths are touched
+ by this commit?" info stored in the commit-graph system.
+
+ * As FreeBSD is not the only platform whose regexp library reports
+ a REG_ILLSEQ error when fed invalid UTF-8, add logic to detect that
+ automatically and skip the affected tests.
+
+ * "git bugreport" learns to report what shell is in use.
+
+ * Support for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE has been rewritten in terms of
+ GIT_TRACE_CURL.
Fixes since v2.27
existing repositories as-is.
(merge d42a2fb72f en/fast-import-looser-date later to maint).
+ * The command line completion script (in contrib/) tried to complete
+ "git stash -p" as if it were "git stash push -p", but it was too
+ aggressive and also affected "git stash show -p", which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge fffd0cf520 vs/complete-stash-show-p-fix later to maint).
+
+ * On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the
+ remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side
+ prematurely throws an error and disconnects. The communication has
+ been updated to make it more robust.
+
+ * "git checkout -p" did not handle a newly added path at all.
+ (merge 2c8bd8471a js/checkout-p-new-file later to maint).
+
+ * The code to parse "git bisect start" command line was lax in
+ validating the arguments.
+ (merge 4d9005ff5d cb/bisect-helper-parser-fix later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint).
(merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint).