Eleventh batch for 2.14

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

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt

@@ -38,19 +38,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
    necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
-   (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
 
  * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
 
  * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
-   (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint).
 
  * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
    to pack-objects.
 
  * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
    and reject a message before sending it out.
-   (merge 177409e589 jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).
 
  * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
    when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
@@ -81,7 +78,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    required disambiguation more often.  The command line parser
    learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
    looks like so.
-   (merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint).
 
  * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
    and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
@@ -90,6 +86,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
    filters.
 
+ * Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
+   a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
+   would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others.  We
+   learned to give warnings when this happens.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -99,7 +100,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
    accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
-   (merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint).
 
  * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
    remove the temporary directory used during the test.
@@ -122,14 +122,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
    default in-core index.
-   (merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint).
 
  * Add perf-test for wildmatch.
-   (merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint).
 
  * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
    extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
-   (merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint).
 
  * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
    index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
@@ -140,7 +137,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    cache is properly invalidated).
 
  * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
-   (merge 8df4c2953f ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup later to maint).
 
  * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
    recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
@@ -174,11 +170,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
    to one.
-   (merge e0556a928f pc/dir-count-slashes later to maint).
 
  * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
    with other parts of the system.
 
+ * A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z]
+   (which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added.  The
+   pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should
+   with "wildmatch".
+
+ * The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured
+   for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'.
+   (merge 0c977dbc81 jk/diff-highlight-module later to maint).
+
+ * A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
+   pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
+   FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -227,11 +235,6 @@ notes for details).
  * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
    submodule that itself has submodules.
 
- * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the
-   split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the
-   future.
-   (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint).
-
  * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
    the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
    in the output, without inspecting individual objects.  This
@@ -361,10 +364,38 @@ notes for details).
    and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
    (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint).
 
+ * "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds
+   around underlying meld.
+   (merge 0af85f84bd da/mergetools-meld-output-opt-on-macos later to maint).
+
+ * An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
+   configuration has been corrected.
+   (merge 773a88914f ah/doc-gitattributes-empty-index later to maint).
+
+ * The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an
+   optimization that no longer works correctly.  In preparation/hope
+   of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization
+   that is broken.
+   (merge fe9e2aefd4 rs/pretty-add-again later to maint).
+
+ * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the
+   configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and
+   then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was
+   unnecessarilyl complex.  Attempt to simplify the logic by using the
+   early-config mechanism that does not chdir around.
+   (merge a9bcf6586d js/alias-early-config later to maint).
+
+ * Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
+   that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
+   into its own header file.
+   (merge dc8441fdb4 bw/config-h later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint).
    (merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
    (merge 68241cb9dd sb/t4005-modernize later to maint).
    (merge ae52d57f0b km/test-mailinfo-b-failure later to maint).
    (merge 8b1d9136e1 sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix later to maint).
    (merge bb8efa1772 sd/t3200-branch-m-test later to maint).
+   (merge 8abc09c0e3 sg/doc-pretty-formats later to maint).
+   (merge 680b469e83 sn/reset-doc-typofix later to maint).