Added exclude= option for tar: and zip: directives
describe-specfile (by Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy):
gear:
gear-changelog (by Arseny Maslennikov):
-header-only option to only print changelog header.
gear-create-tag:
s/--specsubst option (closes: #39783).
gear-update-sh-functions (by Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy):
> 644).
Moved gear-sh-functions and describe-specfile to separate
Malinovskiy).
Updated bash completions.

Updated git-core requirement.
gear-srpmimport: expanded help text on --stdin option a bit.
tests: sort output before comparison in one more place (by Ivan Zakharyaschev).

Re-enable multi-threaded compression for xz and zstd.

Added "exclude=" option to "diff" directive

gear-update: made --ignore-exclude the default behaviour (closes: #37371),
-honor-exclude option.

gear-srpmimport: honor RPMFILE_SPECFILE.
gear-changelog (by Alexey Gladkov):
-no-credits option to omit credits;
-no-header option to omit changelog header;
-since-date option to show commits since a specified date.
gear-commit (by Alexey Gladkov; closes: #33452):
message config parameter: when set to true,
message-save config parameter: when set
Updated bash completion for gear (by Alexey Gladkov).

Applied bash4 compatibility workaround (closes: #32147).
Added SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support (closes: #34203).

Added zstd(1) support in .gear-rules and import tools.
gear: added support for lz4(1), lzop(1), xz(1), and zstd(1)
tests: fixed for git >= 2.10.

gear-changelog, gear-edit-spec: look for specfile using the same
commit (by Alexey Gladkov and me; closes: #18140).

gear-edit-spec: new utility, invokes editor for specfile.

gear-changelog-rpm: added support of epoch.

gear-update: added --strip-components option (by Alexey Gladkov).
gear-create-tag:
-quiet option (by Alexey Gladkov);

gear-update-src-{cpio,gem,tar,zip}: set safe permissions
gear: fixed --export-dir support (by Paul Wolneykien).

Fixed typo in specsubst support.

test suite: updated for git >= 1.8.0.

gear-sh-functions (expand_rpm_macros): changed macros expansion
Implemented .gear/rules specsubst directive that controls