Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
+By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
+encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
+allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
+introduced in v1.5.2.
+
+ GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
+ actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
+ GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, also only documented as affecting "git config" and
+ not different from GIT_CONFIG in a useful way, is removed.
+
Updates since v1.5.6
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