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Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Feb 6, 2013
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* Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.

* Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to
be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the
concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git".
All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.

* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
tools in server settings.
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try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed.
(merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint).

* We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
(merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint).

* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.

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* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
created new refs had a nasty race.

* Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
has been broken since v1.7.12.
(merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint).

* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.

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commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.

* A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
(merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint).

* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
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* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.

* A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy
versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
distros.
(merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint).

* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.

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