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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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* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
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continues.
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* When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
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subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
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git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
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the full path from the root of the working tree.
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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 clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable,
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even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory. Now we attempt it
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as the last resort.
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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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* "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
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* "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just
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like fast-imoprt does.
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* "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given.
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* "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long
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as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied.
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* "git rev-list --count" used with "--cherry-mark" counts the cherry-picked
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commits separately, producing more a useful output.
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* "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
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changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
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* "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you
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really have that many stash entries.
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* Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
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the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
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a same tarball.
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Also contains various documentation updates.
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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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* The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally
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ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file. Such a
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change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change.
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* The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the
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pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result,
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when renames are involved.
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(merge jh/dirstat for the above two later)
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* "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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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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* "git format-patch" did not quote RFC822 special characters in the
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email address (e.g From: Junio C. Hamano <[email protected]>, not
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From: "Junio C. Hamano" <[email protected]>).
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(merge jk/format-patch-quote-special-in-from later)
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* "git mergetool" did not handle conflicted submoudules gracefully.
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(merge jm/mergetool-submodules 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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