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Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt

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* Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
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to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
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* Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
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make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
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and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
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"-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
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* "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
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chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
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specified paths came.
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* When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
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report an error correctly to the end user.
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* "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
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to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
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case.
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* When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
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name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older
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clients.
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* "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
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in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
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superproject and already initialized.
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Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.

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