The 8th batch

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

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * "git history" history rewriting (experimental) command has been
    added.
 
-
  * "git replay" is taught to drop commits that become empty (not the
    ones that are empty in the original).
 
@@ -32,6 +31,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * Command line completion (in contrib/) update for
    "stash import/export".
 
+ * "git repo info" learns "--keys" action to list known keys.
+
+ * Extend the alias configuration syntax to allow aliases using
+   characters outside ASCII alphanumeric (plus '-').
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -76,6 +80,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    already do on Linux and Windows.  Also adjust the way Windows
    implementation reports this information to match the other two.
 
+ * A handful of places used refs_for_each_ref_in() API incorrectly,
+   which has been corrected.
+
+ * Some tests assumed "iconv" is available without honoring ICONV
+   prerequisite, which has been corrected.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.53
 -----------------
@@ -130,6 +140,21 @@ Fixes since v2.53
    been fixed.
    (merge f4eff7116d ps/pack-concat-wo-backfill later to maint).
 
+ * "git switch <name>", in an attempt to create a local branch <name>
+   after a remote tracking branch of the same name gave an advise
+   message to disambiguate using "git checkout", which has been
+   updated to use "git switch".
+   (merge 12fee11f21 jc/checkout-switch-restore later to maint).
+
+ * It does not make much sense to apply the "incomplete-line"
+   whitespace rule to symbolic links, whose contents almost always
+   lack the final newline.  "git apply" and "git diff" are now taught
+   to exclude them for a change to symbolic links.
+   (merge 6a41481c6d jc/whitespace-incomplete-line later to maint).
+
+ * "git format-patch --from=<me>" did not honor the command line
+   option when writing out the cover letter, which has been corrected.
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint).
    (merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint).
@@ -151,3 +176,7 @@ Fixes since v2.53
    (merge 2668b6bdc4 jc/doc-rerere-update later to maint).
    (merge 2f99f50f2d jc/doc-cg-c-comment later to maint).
    (merge a454cdca42 kh/doc-am-format-sendmail later to maint).
+   (merge 8b0061b5c5 jk/ref-filter-lrstrip-optim later to maint).
+   (merge 5133837392 ps/ci-gitlab-msvc-updates later to maint).
+   (merge 143e84958c db/doc-fetch-jobs-auto later to maint).
+   (merge 0678e01f02 ap/use-test-seq-f-more later to maint).