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"git archive" running on Cygwin can get stuck in an infinite loop.
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"git daemon" did not correctly parse the initial line that carries virtual host request information.
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"git diff --textconv" leaked memory badly when the textconv filter errored out.
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The built-in regular expressions to pick function names to put on hunk header lines for java and objc were very inefficiently written.
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in certain error situations git-fetch (and git-clone) on Windows didn’t detect connection abort and ended up waiting indefinitely.
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import-tars script (in contrib) did not import symbolic links correctly.
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http.c used CURLOPT_SSLKEY even on libcURL version 7.9.2, even though it was only available starting 7.9.3.
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low-level filelevel merge driver used return value from strdup() without checking if we ran out of memory.
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"git rebase -i" left stray closing parenthesis in its reflog message.
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"git remote show" did not show all the URLs associated with the named remote, even though "git remote -v" did. Made them consistent by making the former show all URLs.
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"whitespace" attribute that is set was meant to detect all errors known to git, but it told git to ignore trailing carriage-returns.
Includes other documentation fixes.