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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,33 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    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.
+
+ * "git quiltimport" learned "--keep-non-patch" option.
+
+ * "git worktree remove" and "git worktree move" refused to work when
+   there is a submodule involved.  This has been loosened to ignore
+   uninitialized submodules.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick -m1" was forbidden when picking a non-merge
+   commit, even though there _is_ parent number 1 for such a commit.
+   This was done to avoid mistakes back when "cherry-pick" was about
+   picking a single commit, but is no longer useful with "cherry-pick"
+   that can pick a range of commits.  Now the "-m$num" option is
+   allowed when picking any commit, as long as $num names an existing
+   parent of the commit.
+
+ * Update "git multimail" from the upstream.
+
+ * "git p4" update.
+
+ * The "--format=<placeholder>" option of for-each-ref, branch and tag
+   learned to show a few more traits of objects that can be learned by
+   the object_info API.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -33,6 +60,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * More codepaths become aware of working with in-core repository
    instance other than the default "the_repository".
 
+ * The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions.
+
+ * Portability updates for the HPE NonStop platform.
+
+ * Earlier we added "-Wformat-security" to developer builds, assuming
+   that "-Wall" (which includes "-Wformat" which in turn is required
+   to use "-Wformat-security") is always in effect.  This is not true
+   when config.mak.autogen is in use, unfortunately.  This has been
+   fixed by unconditionally adding "-Wall" to developer builds.
+
+ * The loose object cache used to optimize existence look-up has been
+   updated.
+
+ * Flaky tests can now be repeatedly run under load with the
+   "--stress" option.
+   (merge fb7d1e3ac8 sg/stress-test later to maint).
+
 
 Fixes since v2.20
 -----------------
@@ -63,4 +107,82 @@ Fixes since v2.20
    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).
+
+ * "git submodule update" ought to use a single job unless asked, but
+   by mistake used multiple jobs, which has been fixed.
+   (merge e3a9d1aca9 sb/submodule-fetchjobs-default-to-one later to maint).
+
+ * "git stripspace" should be usable outside a git repository, but
+   under the "-s" or "-c" mode, it didn't.
+   (merge 957da75802 jn/stripspace-wo-repository later to maint).
+
+ * Some of the documentation pages formatted incorrectly with
+   Asciidoctor, which have been fixed.
+   (merge b62eb1d2f4 ma/asciidoctor later to maint).
+
+ * The core.worktree setting in a submodule repository should not be
+   pointing at a directory when the submodule loses its working tree
+   (e.g. getting deinit'ed), but the code did not properly maintain
+   this invariant.
+
+ * With zsh, "git cmd path<TAB>" was completed to "git cmd path name"
+   when the completed path has a special character like SP in it,
+   without any attempt to keep "path name" a single filename.  This
+   has been fixed to complete it to "git cmd path\ name" just like
+   Bash completion does.
+
+ * The test suite tried to see if it is run under bash, but the check
+   itself failed under some other implementations of shell (notably
+   under NetBSD).  This has been corrected.
+   (merge 54ea72f09c sg/test-bash-version-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git gc" and "git repack" did not close the open packfiles that
+   they found unneeded before removing them, which didn't work on a
+   platform incapable of removing an open file.  This has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 5bdece0d70 js/gc-repack-close-before-remove 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).
+   (merge b8b4cb27e6 ds/gc-doc-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 3b3357626e nd/style-opening-brace later to maint).
+   (merge b4583d5595 es/doc-worktree-guessremote-config later to maint).
+   (merge cce99cd8c6 ds/commit-graph-assert-missing-parents later to maint).
+   (merge 0650614982 cy/completion-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 6881925ef5 rs/sha1-file-close-mapped-file-on-error later to maint).
+   (merge bd8d6f0def en/show-ref-doc-fix later to maint).