Git 2.8 Release Notes
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Updates since v2.7
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UI, Workflows & Features

 * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
   (merge 38a2559 ps/push-delete-option later to maint).

 * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
   too much time before emitting the first line of the result.
   (merge aba37f4 ea/blame-progress later to maint).

 * "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line)
   how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.
   (merge 89f09dd vl/grep-configurable-threads later to maint).


Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

 * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use
   it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel.

 * A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets
   as such correctly.


Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.


Fixes since v2.7
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).

 * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by
   exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree,
   interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without
   setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.
   (merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint).