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+Git 2.21 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward Compatibility Notes
+----------------------------
+
+
+Updates since v2.20
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * The "http.version" configuration variable can be used with recent
+   enough cURL library to force the version of HTTP used to talk when
+   fetching and pushing.
+
+ * Small fixes and features for fast-export and fast-import, mostly on
+   the fast-export side.
+
+ * "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully
+   qualified refname and not clear what the end user meant.  The
+   codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also
+   guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed
+   object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under
+   refs/tags/).
+
+ * "git checkout [<tree-ish>] path..." learned to report the number of
+   paths that have been checked out of the index or the tree-ish,
+   which gives it the same degree of noisy-ness as the case in which
+   the command checks out a branch.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Code clean-up with optimization for the codepath that checks
+   (non-)existence of loose objects.
+
+ * More codepaths become aware of working with in-core repository
+   instance other than the default "the_repository".
+
+
+Fixes since v2.20
+-----------------
+
+ * Updates for corner cases in merge-recursive.
+   (merge cc4cb0902c en/merge-path-collision later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout frotz" (without any double-dash) avoids ambiguity by
+   making sure 'frotz' cannot be interpreted as a revision and as a
+   path at the same time.  This safety has been updated to check also
+   a unique remote-tracking branch 'frotz' in a remote, when dwimming
+   to create a local branch 'frotz' out of a remote-tracking branch
+   'frotz' from a remote.
+   (merge be4908f103 nd/checkout-dwim-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Refspecs configured with "git -c var=val clone" did not propagate
+   to the resulting repository, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 7eae4a3ac4 sg/clone-initial-fetch-configuration later to maint).
+
+ * A properly configured username/email is required under
+   user.useConfigOnly in order to create commits; now "git stash"
+   (even though it creates commit objects to represent stash entries)
+   command is exempt from the requirement.
+   (merge 3bc2111fc2 sd/stash-wo-user-name later to maint).
+
+ * The http-backend CGI process did not correctly clean up the child
+   processes it spawns to run upload-pack etc. when it dies itself,
+   which has been corrected.
+   (merge 02818a98d7 mk/http-backend-kill-children-before-exit later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list --exclude-promisor-objects" had to take an object
+   that does not exist locally (and is lazily available) from the
+   command line without barfing, but the code dereferenced NULL.
+   (merge 4cf67869b2 md/list-lazy-objects-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The traversal over tree objects has learned to honor
+   ":(attr:label)" pathspec match, which has been implemented only for
+   enumerating paths on the filesystem.
+   (merge 5a0b97b34c nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk later to maint).
+
+ * BSD port updates.
+   (merge 4e3ecbd439 cb/openbsd-allows-reading-directory later to maint).
+   (merge b6bdc2a0f5 cb/t5004-empty-tar-archive-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 82cbc8cde2 cb/test-lint-cp-a later to maint).
+
+ * Lines that begin with a certain keyword that come over the wire, as
+   well as lines that consist only of one of these keywords, ought to
+   be painted in color for easier eyeballing, but the latter was
+   broken ever since the feature was introduced in 2.19, which has
+   been corrected.
+   (merge 1f67290450 hn/highlight-sideband-keywords later to maint).
+
+ * "git log -G<regex>" looked for a hunk in the "git log -p" patch
+   output that contained a string that matches the given pattern.
+   Optimize this code to ignore binary files, which by default will
+   not show any hunk that would match any pattern (unless textconv or
+   the --text option is in effect, that is).
+   (merge e0e7cb8080 tb/log-G-binary later to maint).
+
+ * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge 89ba9a79ae hb/t0061-dot-in-path-fix later to maint).
+   (merge d173e799ea sb/diff-color-moved-config-option-fixup later to maint).
+   (merge a8f5a59067 en/directory-renames-nothanks-doc-update later to maint).
+   (merge ec36c42a63 nd/indentation-fix later to maint).
+   (merge f116ee21cd do/gitweb-strict-export-conf-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 112ea42663 fd/gitweb-snapshot-conf-doc-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 1cadad6f65 tb/use-common-win32-pathfuncs-on-cygwin later to maint).
+   (merge 57e9dcaa65 km/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint).