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Update draft release notes to 1.8.2

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided. caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
* The completion script (in contrib/completion) used to let the
default completer to suggest pathnames, which gave too many
irrelevant choices (e.g. "git add" would not want to add an
unmodified path). It learnt to use a more git-aware logic to
enumerate only relevant ones.
* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
tools in server settings. tools in server settings.
@ -248,12 +254,22 @@ details).
was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
* The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes
back from the server side to make sure that the request is being
handled properly.
(merge 3443db5 sp/smart-http-content-type-check later to maint).
* "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines. excess trailing blank lines.
* "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity
value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a
bogus value.
(merge afcb6ac jk/apply-similaritly-parsing later to maint).
* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
@ -279,6 +295,11 @@ details).
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
* We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input,
resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing
the "--raw --cc" output.
(merge edbc00e jc/combine-diff-many-parents later to maint).
* "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
@ -377,6 +398,10 @@ details).
unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
distros. distros.
* The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated
config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir.
(merge fc1c541 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint).
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed. old version of the tutorial; removed.