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RelNotes/1.7.5.txt: typo and language fixes
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Also remove entries for fixes that are already present in the
maintenance track.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Michael J Gruber authored and Junio C Hamano committed Mar 17, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
* "git checkout --detach <commit>" is a more user friendly synonym for
"git checkout <commit>^0".

* "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and an
* "git checkout" performed on detached HEAD gives a warning and
advice when the commit being left behind will become unreachable from
any branch or tag.

* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use custom merge
* "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" can be told to use a custom merge
strategy, similar to "git rebase".

* "git cherry-pick" remembers which commit failed to apply when it is
Expand All @@ -43,19 +43,19 @@ Updates since v1.7.4
* "git grep --no-index" did not honor pathspecs correctly, returning
paths outside the specified area.

* "git log" family of commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
* "git log" type commands now understand globbing pathspecs. You
can say "git log -- '*.txt'" for example.

* "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" would limit the objects listed
* "git rev-list --objects $revs -- $pathspec" now limits the objects listed
in its output properly with the pathspec, in preparation for narrow
clones.

* "git push" with no parameters gives better advice messages when
"tracking" is used as the push.default semantics or there is no remote
configured yet.

* "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining", that is similar to
"status" that lists the paths that had conflicts that are known to
* "git rerere" learned a new subcommand "remaining" that is similar to
"status" and lists the paths that had conflicts which are known to
rerere, but excludes the paths that have already been marked as
resolved in the index from its output. "git mergetool" has been
updated to use this facility.
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that existed before when applying a hunk, contributing misapplication
of patches with offsets.

* "git clone /no/such/path" did not fail correctly (jk/fail-null/clone).

* "git checkout $other_branch" silently removed untracked symbolic links
in the working tree that are in the way in order to check out paths
under it from the named branch (js/checkout-untracked-symlink).

* "git diff --stat -B" ran on binary files counted the changes in lines,
which was nonsensical (jk/diffstat-binary).

* "git diff -M" opportunisticly detected copies, which was not
necessarily a good thing, especially when it is internally run by
recursive merge.

* "git merge" triggers prepare-commit-msg hook. Earlier, only "git
commit" to conclude an interrupted merge triggered the hook, leading to
an inconsistent overall user experience (js/maint-merge-use-prepare-commit-msg-hook).

* "git submodule update" used to honor --merge/--rebase option (or
* "git submodule update" used to honor the --merge/--rebase option (or
corresponding configuration variables) even for a newly cloned
subprojects, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time).
subproject, which made no sense (so/submodule-no-update-first-time).

---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.4.1-265-gd0ef5a7
O=v1.7.4.1-291-g01de349
echo O=$(git describe 'master')
git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master

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