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.gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for comment introduction character "#".
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timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months ago", and "N years ago".
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git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames.
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"git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the correct .git directory.
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git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses.