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Update draft release notes to 1.7.8

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 13 years ago
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      Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt

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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt

@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.7

* Some git-svn and git-gui updates.

* Updates to bash completion scripts.

* The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed
dependency automatically when the complier supports it.

@ -110,6 +112,11 @@ included in this release. @@ -110,6 +112,11 @@ included in this release.
a corrupt packet.
(merge 6cdf022 sp/smart-http-failure later to maint).

* HTTP transport did not use pushurl correctly, and also did not tell
what host it is trying to authenticate with when asking for
credentials.
(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).

* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
@ -122,11 +129,31 @@ included in this release. @@ -122,11 +129,31 @@ included in this release.
is pointed at by the tag were in HEAD.
(merge baf18fc nd/maint-autofix-tag-in-head later to maint).

* Report from "git commit" on untracked files was confused under
core.ignorecase option.
(merge 2548183b jk/name-hash-dirent later to maint).

* The attribute mechanism did not use case insensitive match when
core.ignorecase was set.
(merge 6eba621 bc/attr-ignore-case later to maint).

* "git apply --whitespace=error" did not bother to report the exact
line number in the patch that introduced new blank lines at the end
of the file.
(merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).

* "git bisect" did not notice when it failed to update the working tree
to the next commit to be tested.
(merge 1acf11717 js/bisect-no-checkout later to maint).

* "git checkout $tree $directory/" resurrected paths locally removed or
modified only in the working tree in $directory/ that did not appear
in $directory of the given $tree. They should have been kept intact.
(merge 0a1283b jc/checkout-from-tree-keep-local-changes later to maint).

* "git config --bool --get-regexp" failed to separate the variable name
and its value "true" when the variable is defined without "= true".
(merge 880e3cc mm/maint-config-explicit-bool-display later to maint).

* "git remote rename $a $b" were not careful to match the remote name
against $a (i.e. source side of the remote nickname).
@ -143,13 +170,22 @@ included in this release. @@ -143,13 +170,22 @@ included in this release.
the file that may not even have any conflict.
(merge 6d9990a jm/mergetool-pathspec later to maint).

* "git pull" and "git rebase" did not work well even when GIT_WORK_TREE is
set correctly with GIT_DIR if the current directory is outside the working
tree.
(merge 035b5bf jk/pull-rebase-with-work-tree later to maint).

" "git push" on the receiving end used to call post-receive and post-update
hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).

* "gitweb" used to produce a non-working link while showing the contents
of a blob, when JavaScript actions are enabled.
(merge 2b07ff3ff ps/gitweb-js-with-lineno later to maint).

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.7-324-g47d45a5
O=v1.7.7-368-g9638384
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo

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