Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint
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			@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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   E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a
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   subdirectory of "foo".
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 * When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
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   that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
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   pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
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   not be interpretable as object names.  This disambiguation rule has
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   been tweaked so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is
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   always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer
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   needed, you can just say "git cmd :/".
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 * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
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 * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
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			@ -112,7 +120,8 @@ Foreign Interface
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 * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.
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 * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling.
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 * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling.  It is
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   also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5.
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 * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few
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   fixes.
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			@ -126,6 +135,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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 * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard
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   characters has been optimized further.
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 * We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points
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   at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config"
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   quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and
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   then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily.
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 * "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in
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   general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but
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   there could be corner cases, especially when running the command
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			@ -153,6 +167,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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   USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you
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   find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal.
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 * Some reimplementations of Git do not write all the stat info back
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   to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit).
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   A configuration option can tell Git to ignore changes to most of
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   the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime and size, which
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   these implementations can reliably update.  This can be used to
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   avoid excessive revalidation of contents.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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			@ -186,6 +207,11 @@ details).
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 * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
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   pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
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 * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from
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   /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug
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   lost the "user@" part.
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   (merge dc342a2 jn/do-not-drop-username-when-reading-from-etc-mailname later to maint).
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 * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
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   applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
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   exclude mechanism does.  The initial implementation of this that
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			@ -206,6 +232,10 @@ details).
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 * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
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   streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
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 * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
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   being on a detached HEAD, errored out.
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   (merge 75135b2 nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached later to maint).
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 * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up
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   finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a
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   confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an
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			@ -218,6 +248,12 @@ details).
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   failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
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   This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
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 * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways.  The
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   resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
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   unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
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   command, and documentation was misleading.
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   (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint).
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 * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
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   GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
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			@ -306,3 +342,7 @@ details).
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   need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
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 * t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct.
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 * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
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   affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
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   (merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint).
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