The sixteenth batch

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

Documentation/RelNotes/2.47.0.txt

@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    added by these helper functions, but many existing messages had an
    unnecessary LF at the end, which have been corrected.
 
+ * The "scalar clone" command learned the "--no-tags" option.
+
+ * The environment GIT_ADVICE has been intentionally kept undocumented
+   to discourage its use by interactive users.  Add documentation to
+   help tool writers.
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 --------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -223,6 +228,22 @@ Fixes since v2.46
    which has been a bit tamed.
    (merge c3459ae9ef ps/pack-refs-auto-heuristics later to maint).
 
+ * A file descriptor left open is now properly closed when "git
+   sparse-checkout" updates the sparse patterns.
+
+ * In a few corner cases "git diff --exit-code" failed to report
+   "changes" (e.g., renamed without any content change), which has
+   been corrected.
+   (merge 11591850dd rs/diff-exit-code-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Cygwin does have /dev/tty support that is needed by things like
+   single-key input mode.
+   (merge 39ba986b0e rj/cygwin-has-dev-tty later to maint).
+
+ * The interpret-trailers command failed to recognise the end of the
+   message when the commit log ends in an incomplete line.
+   (merge c02414a997 bl/trailers-and-incomplete-last-line-fix later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge bb0498b1bb jc/how-to-maintain-updates later to maint).
    (merge 0d66f601a9 jc/tests-no-useless-tee later to maint).
@@ -235,3 +256,4 @@ Fixes since v2.46
    (merge 1609470409 jc/config-doc-update later to maint).
    (merge d4dc0efd7d rj/compat-terminal-unused-fix later to maint).
    (merge be10ac7037 jc/mailinfo-header-cleanup later to maint).
+   (merge 9a36ea37ae jc/doc-skip-fetch-all-and-prefetch later to maint).