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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 21, 2011
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Updates since v1.7.7
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* Some git-svn, git-gui and msysgit updates.
* Some git-svn, git-gui, git-p4 (in contrib) and msysgit updates.

* Updates to bash completion scripts.

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* Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple
commits learned to "--continue".

* "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients
using ERR packets when appropriate.

* Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon".

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

* "git difftool" can be told to skip launching the tool for a path by
answering 'n' to its prompt.

* "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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"git receive-pack" (the receiving end of "git push") learned to do the
same.

* "git fetch" learned that fetching/cloning from a regular file on the
filesystem is not necessarily a request to unpack a bundle file; the
file could be ".git" with "gitdir: <path>" in it.

* "git for-each-ref" learned "%(contents:subject)", "%(contents:body)"
and "%(contents:signature)". The last one is useful for signed tags.

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

* "git rebase -i" can be told to use special purpose editor suitable
only for its insn sheet via sequence.editor configuration variable.

* "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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credentials.
(merge deba493 jk/http-auth later to maint).

* "git branch -m/-M" advertised to update RENAME_REF ref in the
commit log message that introduced the feature but not anywhere in
the documentation, and never did update such a ref anyway. This
undocumented misfeature that did not exist has been excised.
(merge b0eab01 jc/maint-remove-renamed-ref later to maint).

* Adding many refs to the local repository in one go (e.g. "git fetch"
that fetches many tags) and looking up a ref by name in a repository
with too many refs were unnecessarily slow.
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---
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.7.7-418-g40d6987
O=v1.7.7-485-g9ee3d37
echo O=$(git describe --always master)
git log --first-parent --oneline --reverse ^$O master
echo
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