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Update draft release notes to 1.7.6

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 14 years ago
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt

@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5

* Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.

* Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
disallowed.

* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
continues.

@ -56,6 +59,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 @@ -56,6 +59,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
(or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
fast-forward to happen when possible.

* p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.

* "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.

@ -65,6 +70,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5 @@ -65,6 +70,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.

* "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is
still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.

* Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
a same tarball.
@ -86,14 +95,26 @@ included in this release. @@ -86,14 +95,26 @@ included in this release.

* The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
completion emulation layer now.
(merge either fc/completion-zsh later)
(merge fc/completion-zsh later)

* The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
(merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)

* "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
(merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)

* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)

* "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
used to corrupt memory.
(merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)

* "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
(merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
(merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later)

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