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Update 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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@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
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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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* Aborting "git commit --interactive" discards updates to the index
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made during the interctive session.
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* "git commit" learned a "--patch" option to directly jump to the
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per-hunk selection UI of the interactive mode.
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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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like the way "git checkout -" works.
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* "git merge" uses "merge.ff" configuration variable to decide to always
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create a merge commit (i.e. --no-ff, aka merge.ff=no), refuse to create
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a merge commit (i.e. --ff-only, aka merge.ff=only). Setting merge.ff=yes
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(or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
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fast-forward to happen when possible.
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* "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
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the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
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included in this release.
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* "git add -p" did not work correctly when a hunk is split and then
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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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* Setting $(prefix) in config.mak did not affect where etc/gitconfig
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file is read from, even though passing it from the command line of
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$(MAKE) did.
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(merge kk/maint-prefix-in-config-mak 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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* The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
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completion emulation layer now.
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(merge either fc/completion-zsh 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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* In "git merge", per-branch branch.<name>.mergeoptions configuration
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variables did not override the fallback default merge.<option>
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configuration variables such as merge.ff, merge.log, etc.
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(merge jc/maint-branch-mergeoptions 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=$(git describe master)
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O=v1.7.5.1-288-ge4ae6ef
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O=v1.7.5.1-339-g254fd97
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git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master

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