Update draft release notes to 1.7.9

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.txt

@@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
    locale is appropriately set. Distributors can drop in new PO files
    in po/ to add new translations.
 
- * Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions
-   and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with
-   the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for
-   type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".
-
  * The code to handle username/password for HTTP transaction used in
    "git push" & "git fetch" learned to talk "credential API" to
    external programs to cache or store them, to allow integration with
@@ -36,9 +31,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
  * "git add" learned to stream large files directly into a packfile
    instead of writing them into individual loose object files.
 
- * "git branch -m <current branch> HEAD" is an obvious no-op and is
-   now allowed.
-
  * "git checkout -B <current branch> <elsewhere>" is a more intuitive
    way to spell "git reset --keep <elsewhere>".
 
@@ -63,9 +55,6 @@ Updates since v1.7.8
  * The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages
    knows MATLAB.
 
- * "git log --follow" honors the rename threshold score given with the
-   -M option (e.g. "-M50%").
-
  * "git log --format='<format>'" learned new %g[nNeE] specifiers to
    show information from the reflog entries when warlking the reflog
    (i.e. with "-g").
@@ -106,74 +95,17 @@ Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 Fixes since v1.7.8
 ------------------
 
- * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with
-   native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly.
-   (merge a9bfbc5 jk/maint-snprintf-va-copy later to maint).
-
- * git native connection going over TCP (not over SSH) did not set
-   SO_KEEPALIVE option which failed to receive link layer errors.
-   (merge e47a858 ew/keepalive later to maint).
-
- * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might
-   be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying
-   to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository
-   data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that
-   follows a CR.
-   (merge 8496f56 jc/maint-lf-to-crlf-keep-crlf later to maint).
-
- * "git checkout -m" did not recreate the conflicted state in a "both
-   sides added, without any common ancestor version" conflict
-   situation.
-   (merge 5cd7fadc jc/checkout-m-twoway later to maint).
-
- * "git cherry-pick $commit" (not a range) created an unnecessary
-   sequencer state and interfered with valid workflow to use the
-   command during a session to cherry-pick multiple commits.
-   (merge d596118 jn/maint-sequencer-fixes later to maint).
-
- * You could make "git commit" segfault by giving the "--no-message"
-   option.
-   (merge 03f94ae jk/maint-strbuf-missing-init later to maint).
-
- * "fast-import" did not correctly update an existing notes tree,
-   possibly corrupting the fan-out.
-
- * "git fetch-pack" accepted unqualified refs that do not begin with
-   refs/ by mistake and compensated it by matching the refspec with
-   tail-match, which was doubly wrong. This broke fetching from a
-   repository with a funny named ref "refs/foo/refs/heads/master" and a
-   'master' branch with "git fetch-pack refs/heads/master", as the
-   command incorrectly considered the former a "match".
-   (merge bab8d28 jk/fetch-no-tail-match-refs later to maint).
-
- * "git mv" gave suboptimal error/warning messages when it overwrites
-   target files. It also did not pay attention to "-v" option.
-   (merge 534376c jk/maint-mv later to maint).
-
- * When a "reword" action in "git rebase -i" failed to run "commit --amend",
-   we did not give the control back to the user to resolve the situation, and
-   instead kept the original commit log message.
-   (merge 0becb3e aw/rebase-i-stop-on-failure-to-amend later to maint).
-
- * Authenticated "git push" over dumb HTTP were broken with a recent
-   change and failed without asking for password when username is
-   given.
-   (merge a4ddbc3 jk/maint-push-over-dav later to maint).
-
- * "git push" to an empty repository over HTTP were broken with a
-   recent change to the ref handling.
-   (merge 02f7914 jk/http-push-to-empty later to maint).
-
- * "git push -v" forgot how to be verbose by mistake. It now properly is.
-   (merge bd2c86e jk/maint-push-v-is-verbose later to maint).
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.8 in the maintenance
+releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
+details).
 
  * gitweb did not correctly fall back to configured $fallback_encoding
    that is not 'latin1'.
    (merge b13e3ea jn/maint-gitweb-utf8-fix later to maint).
 
 --
 exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.8.1-384-g2b6dd6a
+O=v1.7.8.2-301-g48de656
 echo O=$(git describe master)
 git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
 echo