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+Git v2.2 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.1
+------------------
+
+Ports
+
+ * Building on older MacOS X systems automatically sets
+   the necessary NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO build-time option.
+
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user
+   configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
+   user does not already have any.  This immediately reduces the
+   need for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we
+   can add more to the template as we gain more experience.
+
+ * "git stash list -p" used to be almost always a no-op because each
+   stash entry is represented as a merge commit.  It learned to show
+   the difference between the base commit version and the working tree
+   version, which is in line with what "git show" gives.
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+
+ * In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites
+   long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented.
+   The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion.
+
+ * Looking up remotes configuration in a repository with very many
+   remotes defined has been optimized.
+
+ * There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it
+   to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have
+   to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the
+   lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern.
+
+ * An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same
+   configuration files number of times has been added.
+
+ * Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using
+   "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more.
+
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.1
+----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.1 in the maintenance
+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
+notes for details).
+
+ * "git log --pretty/format=" with an empty format string did not
+   mean the more obvious "No output whatsoever" but "Use default
+   format", which was counterintuitive.
+   (merge b9c7d6e jk/pretty-empty-format later to maint).
+
+ * Implementations of "tar" that do not understand an extended pax
+   header would extract the contents of it in a regular file; make
+   sure the permission bits of this file follows the same tar.umask
+   configuration setting.
+
+ * "git -c section.var command" and "git -c section.var= command"
+   should pass the configuration differently (the former should be a
+   boolean true, the latter should be an empty string).
+   (merge a789ca7 jk/command-line-config-empty-string later to maint).
+
+ * Applying a patch not generated by Git in a subdirectory used to
+   check the whitespace breakage using the attributes for incorrect
+   paths. Also whitespace checks were performed even for paths
+   excluded via "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism.
+   (merge 477a08a jc/apply-ws-prefix later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle create" with date-range specification were meant to
+   exclude tags outside the range, but it didn't.
+   (merge 2c8544a lf/bundle-exclusion later to maint).
+
+ * "git add x" where x that used to be a directory has become a
+   symbolic link to a directory misbehaved.
+   (merge ccad42d rs/refresh-beyond-symlink later to maint).
+
+ * The prompt script checked $GIT_DIR/ref/stash file to see if there
+   is a stash, which was a no-no.
+   (merge 0fa7f01 jk/prompt-stash-could-be-packed later to maint).
+
+ * Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo.
+   (merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint).