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Latter half of the second batch for 1.8.0 

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2012-08-29 15:00:30 -07:00
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@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.12


UI, Workflows & Features UI, Workflows & Features


* A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
the logged-in user has been added.

* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
temporary copy of the working tree when available. temporary copy of the working tree when available.


@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ Foreign Interface


* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.



Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)


* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
@ -51,6 +53,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details). to them for details).


* Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
(merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).

* Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
example.
(merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).

* "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
submodule was misspelt.
(merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).

* Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
fixed not to do so.

* The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
(merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint).

* When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
(merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint).

* "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
(merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint).


* When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to