Tenth batch for 2.14

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt

@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
    and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
 
+ * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
+   to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
+   filters.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -168,6 +172,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    which then may cause Git operations to fail.  Single out "the index
    being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
 
+ * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
+   to one.
+   (merge e0556a928f pc/dir-count-slashes later to maint).
+
+ * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
+   with other parts of the system.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -337,6 +348,23 @@ notes for details).
    potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
    (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint).
 
+ * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub.
+   (merge 0b1bb0c032 ls/github later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all.
+   Bugfix for a topic in v2.13
+   (merge 22fc703ec9 ps/stash-push-pathspec-fix later to maint).
+
+ * As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to
+   strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are
+   impossible to produce.  Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z
+   and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
+   (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint).
    (merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
+   (merge 68241cb9dd sb/t4005-modernize later to maint).
+   (merge ae52d57f0b km/test-mailinfo-b-failure later to maint).
+   (merge 8b1d9136e1 sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix later to maint).
+   (merge bb8efa1772 sd/t3200-branch-m-test later to maint).