The eleventh batch

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

Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt

@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * The "git for-each-ref" family of commands learned placeholders
    related to GPG signature verification.
 
+ * "git diff --no-index" learned to read from named pipes as if they
+   were regular files, to allow "git diff <(process) <(substitution)"
+   some shells support.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -166,6 +170,15 @@ Fixes since v2.41
    has been corrected.
    (merge 1aa92b8500 ma/t0091-fixup later to maint).
 
+ * Code snippets in a tutorial document no longer compiled after
+   recent header shuffling, which have been corrected.
+   (merge bbd7c7b7c0 vd/adjust-mfow-doc-to-updated-headers later to maint).
+
+ * "git ls-files '(attr:X)D/'" that triggers the common prefix
+   optimization codepath failed to read from "D/.gitattributes",
+   which has been corrected.
+   (merge f4a8fde057 jc/pathspec-match-with-common-prefix later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 51f9d2e563 sa/doc-ls-remote later to maint).
    (merge c6d26a9dda jk/format-patch-message-id-unleak later to maint).
@@ -187,3 +200,4 @@ Fixes since v2.41
    (merge d4f28279ad jc/doc-hash-object-types later to maint).
    (merge 1876a5ae15 ks/t4205-test-describe-with-abbrev-fix later to maint).
    (merge 6e6a529b57 jk/fsck-indices-in-worktrees later to maint).
+   (merge 3e81b896f7 rs/packet-length-simplify later to maint).