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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
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--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.6.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* Updates the way content tags are handled in gitweb.
+ * Similar to branch names, tagnames that begin with "-" are now
+ disallowed.
+
* Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
continues.
@@ -56,6 +59,8 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
(or not setting it at all) restores the default behaviour of allowing
fast-forward to happen when possible.
+ * p4-import (from contrib) learned a new option --preserve-user.
+
* "git rebase" that does not specify on top of which branch to rebase
the current branch now uses @{upstream} of the current branch.
@@ -65,6 +70,10 @@ Updates since v1.7.5
* "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
+ * "git status" and friends ignore .gitmodules file while the file is
+ still in a conflicted state during a merge, to avoid using information
+ that is not final and possibly corrupt with conflict markers.
+
* Compressed tarball gitweb generates is made without the timestamp of
the tarball generation; snapshot from the same tree should result in
a same tarball.
@@ -86,14 +95,26 @@ included in this release.
* The bash completion scripts should correctly work using zsh's bash
completion emulation layer now.
- (merge either fc/completion-zsh later)
+ (merge fc/completion-zsh later)
+
+ * The logic to handle "&" (expand to UNIX username) in GECOS field
+ miscounted the length of the name it formatted.
+ (merge rg/copy-gecos-username later)
+
+ * "git cherry-pick -s resolve" failed to cherry-pick a root commit.
+ (merge jk/cherry-pick-root-with-resolve later)
* "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
(merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
+ * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec
+ used to corrupt memory.
+ (merge jc/maint-pathspec-stdin-and-cmdline later)
+
* "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could
deadlock when the client side pack-object died early.
(merge js/maint-send-pack-stateless-rpc-deadlock-fix later)
+ (merge jk/git-connection-deadlock-fix later)
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exec >/var/tmp/1