Git v1.7.9 Release Notes (draft)

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Updates since v1.7.8

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* Porcelain commands like "git reset" did not distinguish deletions

and type-changes from ordinary modification, and reported them with

the same 'M' moniker. They now use 'D' (for deletion) and 'T' (for

type-change) to match "git status -s" and "git diff --name-status".

* fsck and prune are relatively lengthy operations that still go

silent while making the end-user wait. They learned to give progress

output like other slow operations.

* The set of built-in function-header patterns for various languages

knows MATLAB.

May also contain documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Fixes since v1.7.8

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* In some codepaths (notably, checkout and merge), the ignore patterns

recorded in $GIT_DIR/info/exclude were not honored. They now are.

(merge fc001b5 nd/maint-ignore-exclude later to maint).