From a2e78c2d87499f82a26a371b21933593dfc31cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:23:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] The third batch for 1.8.0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
index e45788ef3e..b626a9a059 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
    the logged-in user has been added.
 
+ * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
+   allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
+
+ * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
+   external command to decline service based on the client address,
+   repository path, etc.
+
  * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
    temporary copy of the working tree when available.
 
@@ -43,6 +50,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
    for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
    monospace.
 
+ * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
+   descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
+   getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
+
+ * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
+   reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
+
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
 
@@ -53,6 +67,37 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
 maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
 to them for details).
 
+ * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
+   being incorrect.  The implementation has been updated to give the
+   documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a
+   new code for "all other errors".
+   (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint).
+
+ * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a
+   non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from
+   running.  (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to
+   maint).
+
+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
+   asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
+   guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
+   tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
+   please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
+   certainly not what the user meant.
+   (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts
+   unlike other mergy operations.
+   (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree
+   that has local changes.
+   (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).
+
+ * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
+   breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
+   (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint).
+
  * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
    (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
 
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