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Update draft release notes to 1.7.8
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Oct 19, 2011
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Updates since v1.7.7
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* Some git-svn and git-gui updates.
* Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.

* Updates to bash completion scripts.

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* "git diff" learned "--minimal" option to spend extra cycles to come
up with a minimal patch output.

* "git diff" learned "--function-context" option to show the whole
function as context that was affected by a change.

* "git fetch" learned to honor transfer.fsckobjects configuration to
validate the objects that were received from the other end, just like
"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") does.
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files in the working tree, so that matches in new but not yet
added files do not get missed.

* The recursive merge backend no longer looks for meaningless
existing merges in submodules unless in the outermost merge.

* "git log" and friends learned "--children" option.

* "git ls-remote" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.

* "git merge" learned the "--edit" option to allow users to edit the
merge commit log message.

* "git send-email" learned to respond to "-h"(elp) requests.

* "git send-email" allows the value given to sendemail.aliasfile to begin
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* "gitweb" leaked unescaped control characters from syntax hiliter
outputs.

* "gitweb" now has its own manual pages.


Also contains other documentation updates and minor code cleanups.

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of the file.
(merge 8557263 jc/apply-blank-at-eof-fix later to maint).

* "git apply --index" did not check corrupted patch.
(merge 2c93286 jm/maint-apply-detects-corrupt-patch-header 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).
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hooks for attempted removal of non-existing refs.
(merge 160b81ed ph/push-to-delete-nothing later to maint).

* "git send-email" did not honor the configured hostname when restarting
the HELO/EHLO exchange after switching TLS on.
(merge 155b940 md/smtp-tls-hello-again 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=v1.7.7-368-g9638384
O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo
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