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Update draft release notes to 1.7.6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt

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* "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
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number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
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* "git cvsimport" learned that CVSNT stores its password file in a
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location different from the traditional CVS.
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* "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
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there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
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back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
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under the rename detection limit.
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* "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=0 to show
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directories that contribute less than 0.1% of changes.
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* "git diff" and its family of commands learned --dirstat=lines mode to
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assess damage to the directory based on number of lines in the patch
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output, not based on the similarity numbers.
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* "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
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the names of generated files.
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the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
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* "git-p4" (in contrib) learned to merge a file that was added on both
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branches differently by using 2-way merge.
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Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous
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changes.
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one of them was given to the editor.
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(merge jc/maint-add-p-overlapping-hunks later)
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* "git add -u" did not resolve a conflict where our history deleted and
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their history modified the same file, and the working tree resolved to
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keep a file.
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(merge jc/fix-add-u-unmerged later)
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* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
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(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
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* "git diff-files" did not show the mode information from the working
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tree side of an unmerged path correctly.
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(merge jc/fix-diff-files-unmerged later)
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* "git diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
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source candidate, which made no sense.
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(merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
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* "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
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nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
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(merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
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configuration variables such as merge.ff, merge.log, etc.
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* "git merge-one-file" did not honor GIT_WORK_TREE settings when
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handling a "both sides added, differently" conflict.
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(merge jk/merge-one-file-working-tree later)
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* "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.
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* "git rebase -i -p" failed to preserve the history when there is a
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redundant merge created with the --no-ff option.
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(merge aw/maint-rebase-i-p-no-ff later)
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* "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
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mean the same thing.
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(merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
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* "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
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subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.
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(merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later)
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* "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
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deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
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(merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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O=v1.7.5.1-248-ga579498
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O=v1.7.5.1-288-ge4ae6ef
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master

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