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Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt

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* "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
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* "git branch" now rejects some nonsense combinations of command line
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arguments (e.g. giving more than one branch name to rename) with
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more case-specific error messages.
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* "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
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rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap
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* "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learned to list the available
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tool backends in a more consistent manner.
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* "git mergetool" is aware of TortoiseGitMerge now and uses it over
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TortoiseMerge when available.
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* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
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* We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
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killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
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(merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint).
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* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
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* Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
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* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
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* A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
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dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
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* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
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trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
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"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
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* "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or
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gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via
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HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers.
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(merge 5748558 ab/gitweb-use-same-scheme later to maint).
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* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
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whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
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versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
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unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
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distros.
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* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
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* Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
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