to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
to result in intermittent errors in "git push").
+ * The pretty-format specifier "%d", which expanded to " (tagname)"
+ for a tagged commit, gained a cousin "%D" that just gives the
+ "tagname" without frills.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Use of "--verbose" option used to break "git branch --merged".
(merge 12994dd jk/maint-branch-verbose-merged later to maint).
+
+ * Some MUAs mangled a line in a message that begins with "From " to
+ ">From " when writing to a mailbox file and feeding such an input
+ to "git am" used to lose such a line.
+ (merge 85de86a jk/mbox-from-line later to maint).
+
+ * "rev-parse --verify --quiet $name" is meant to quietly exit with a
+ non-zero status when $name is not a valid object name, but still
+ gave error messages in some cases.