Second batch for 2.17

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt

@@ -19,6 +19,46 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server.
    (merge 19cf57a92e cc/codespeed later to maint).
 
+ * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by
+   weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker.
+
+ * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery
+   for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been
+   taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a
+   packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that
+   promises to make them available on-demand and lazily.
+
+ * The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and
+   unpacking objects, has been told how to omit certain objects using
+   the filtering mechanism introduced by another topic.  It now knows
+   to mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to tolerate missing
+   objects, laying foundation for "narrow" clones.
+
+ * The first step to getting rid of mru API and using the
+   doubly-linked list API directly instead.
+
+ * Retire mru API as it does not give enough abstraction over
+   underlying list API to be worth it.
+
+ * Rewrite two more "git submodule" subcommands in C.
+
+ * The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment
+   variables as well.
+   (merge 090a09272a nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
+
+ * Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s", str)
+   (merge cd9a4b6d93 rs/strbuf-cocci-workaround later to maint).
+
+ * Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type.
+   (merge a3715d43e8 po/clang-format-functype-weight later to maint).
+
+ * The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick",
+   "git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" when it
+   needs to create a commit.  It has been taught to do so internally,
+   when able, by reusing the codepath "git commit" itself uses, which
+   gives performance boost for a few tens of percents in some sample
+   scenarios.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -77,8 +117,45 @@ Fixes since v2.16
    anyway.
    (merge 12434efc1d nd/add-i-ignore-submodules later to maint).
 
+ * Avoid showing a warning message in the middle of a line of "git
+   diff" output.
+   (merge 4e056c989f nd/diff-flush-before-warning later to maint).
+
+ * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues,
+   learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output
+   so that it can be more safely sharable.
+   (merge 8ba18e6fa4 jt/http-redact-cookies later to maint).
+
+ * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock
+   what it did not acquire lock on.
+   (merge 81fcb698e0 mr/packed-ref-store-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed.
+   (merge ae59a4e44f tg/split-index-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Assorted fixes to "git daemon".
+   (merge ed15e58efe jk/daemon-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Completion of "git merge -s<strategy>" (in contrib/) did not work
+   well in non-C locale.
+   (merge 7cc763aaa3 nd/list-merge-strategy later to maint).
+
+ * Workaround for segfault with more recent versions of SVN.
+   (merge 7f6f75e97a ew/svn-branch-segfault-fix later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint).
    (merge f0a6068a9f ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
    (merge 30221a3389 as/read-tree-prefix-doc-fix later to maint).
    (merge 9bd2ce5432 ab/doc-cat-file-e-still-shows-errors later to maint).
+   (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint).
+   (merge e1b3f3dd38 ks/submodule-doc-updates later to maint).
+   (merge fbac558a9b rs/describe-unique-abbrev later to maint).
+   (merge 8462ff43e4 tb/crlf-conv-flags later to maint).
+   (merge 7d68bb0766 rb/hashmap-h-compilation-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 3449847168 cc/sha1-file-name later to maint).
+   (merge ad622a256f ds/use-get-be64 later to maint).
+   (merge f919ffebed sg/cocci-move-array later to maint).
+   (merge 4e801463c7 jc/mailinfo-cleanup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge ef5b3a6c5e nd/shared-index-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 9f5258cbb8 tz/doc-show-defaults-to-head later to maint).