@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
7676
7777UI, Workflows & Features
7878
79+ * xdg-open can be used as a browser backend for "git web-browse"
80+ (hence to show "git help -w" output), when available.
81+
7982 * "git grep" and "git show" pays attention to "--textconv" option
8083 when these commands are told to operate on blob objects (e.g. "git
8184 grep -e pattern HEAD:Makefile").
@@ -132,10 +135,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
132135 sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured
133136 to build on some other branch that no longer exists.
134137
135- * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and
136- will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving
137- data over the wire.
138-
139138 * Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to
140139 the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to
141140 allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such
@@ -153,8 +152,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
153152 * "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer"
154153 optimization.
155154
156- * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both
157- Makefile and makefile can be used in more places.
155+ * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both Makefile
156+ and makefile and ":(glob)foo/**/bar" that matches "bar" in "foo"
157+ and any subdirectory of "foo" can be used in more places.
158158
159159 * The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the
160160 configuration applies. For example,
@@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
205205
206206Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
207207
208+ * "git for-each-ref" when asking for merely the object name does not
209+ have to parse the object pointed at by the refs; the codepath has
210+ been optimized.
211+
208212 * The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able.
209213
210214 * "git repack" is now written in C.
@@ -244,6 +248,15 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance
244248track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
245249details).
246250
251+ * A fast-import stream expresses a pathname with funny characters by
252+ quoting them in C style; remote-hg remote helper forgot to unquote
253+ such a path.
254+ (merge 1136265 ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote later to maint).
255+
256+ * "git reset -p HEAD" has a codepath to special case it to behave
257+ differently from resetting to contents of other commits, but a
258+ recent change broke it.
259+
247260 * Coloring around octopus merges in "log --graph" output was screwy.
248261 (merge 339c17b hn/log-graph-color-octopus later to maint).
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