- * After "git apply --whitespace=fix" removed trailing blank lines in an
- patch in a patch series, it failed to apply later patches that depend
- on the presense of such blank lines.
+ * The whitespace rules used in "git apply --whitespace" and "git diff"
+ gained a new member in the family (tab-in-indent) to help projects with
+ policy to indent only with spaces.
+
+ * When working from a subdirectory, by default, git does not look for its
+ metadirectory ".git" across filesystems, primarily to help people who
+ have invocations of git in their custom PS1 prompts, as being outside
+ of a git repository would look for ".git" all the way up to the root
+ directory, and NFS mounts are often slow. DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM
+ environment variable can be used to tell git not to stop at a
+ filesystem boundary.
+
+ * "git" wrapper learned "-c name=value" option to override configuration
+ variable from the command line.
+
+ * The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
+ resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
+
+ * "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
+ prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
+ commit.
+
+ * "git commit --amend" on a commit with an invalid author-name line that
+ lacks the display name didn't work (fb7749e4).
+
+ * "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
+ stored outside the repository.