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Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt

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* Some git-svn and git-gui updates.
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* Updates to bash completion scripts.
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* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
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dependency automatically when the complier supports it.
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a corrupt packet.
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(merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).
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* HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
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what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
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credentials.
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(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).
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* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
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that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
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with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
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is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
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(merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).
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* Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
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core.ignorecase option.
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(merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).
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* The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when
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core.ignorecase was set.
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(merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint).
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* "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
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line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
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of the file.
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(merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).
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* "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
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to the next commit to be tested.
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(merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).
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* "git checkout $tree $directory/" resurrected paths locally removed or
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modified only in the working tree in $directory/ that did not appear
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in $directory of the given $tree. They should have been kept intact.
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(merge 0a1283b jc/checkout-from-tree-keep-local-changes later to maint).
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* "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
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and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
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(merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint).
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* "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
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against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
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the file that may not even have any conflict.
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* "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is
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set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working
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tree.
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(merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint).
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" "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
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hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
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(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).
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* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
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of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
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(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.7.7-324-g47d45a5
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O=v1.7.7-368-g9638384
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echo O=$(git describe --always master)
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git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
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echo

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