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Update draft release notes to 1.7.9.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.9.1.txt

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Fixes since v1.7.9
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* rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
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* Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
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to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
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* "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
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submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
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prepared by for the user to edit.
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* Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
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* Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
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make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
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and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
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chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
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specified paths came.
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* "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
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required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
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operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
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it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag.
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* "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
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to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
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case.
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* "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
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* When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
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report an error correctly to the end user.
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* "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
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to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
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case.
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* "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
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timestamps near year 1970.
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* When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
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name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older

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