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Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt

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* Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
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questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
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* Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to
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be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the
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concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git".
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All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
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caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
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* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
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mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
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tools in server settings.
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try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed.
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(merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint).
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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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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
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created new refs had a nasty race.
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* Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
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has been broken since v1.7.12.
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(merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint).
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* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
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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
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status of the hook.
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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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(merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint).
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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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* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
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* A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy
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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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(merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint).
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* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
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old version of the tutorial; removed.
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