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+Git v1.7.6 Release Notes (draft)
+========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.5
+--------------------
+
+ * Various git-svn updates.
+
+ * Clean-up of the C part of i18n (but not l10n---please wait)
+   continues.
+
+ * When an object "$tree:$path" does not exist, if $path does exist in the
+   subtree of $tree that corresponds to the subdirectory the user is in,
+   git now suggests using "$tree:./$path" in addition to the advice to use
+   the full path from the root of the working tree.
+
+ * "git blame" learned "--abbrev[=<n>]" option to control the minimum
+   number of hexdigits shown for commit object names.
+
+ * "git clean" used to fail on an empty directory that is not readable,
+   even though rmdir(2) could remove such a directory.  Now we attempt it
+   as the last resort.
+
+ * "git diff -C -C" used to disable the rename detection entirely when
+   there are too many copy candidate paths in the tree; now it falls
+   back to "-C" when doing so would keep the copy candidate paths
+   under the rename detection limit.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned "--quiet" option to suppress the output of
+   the names of generated files.
+
+ * "git log" and friends learned a new "--notes" option to replace the
+   "--show-notes" option.  Unlike "--show-notes", "--notes=<ref>" does
+   not imply showing the default notes.
+
+ * "git merge" learned "-" as a short-hand for "the previous branch", just
+   like the way "git checkout -" works.
+
+ * "git pack-object" now takes core.bigfilethreashold into account, just
+   like fast-imoprt does.
+
+ * "git reflog" allows options like "--format=.." to be given.
+
+ * "git stash apply" can now apply to a working tree with changes as long
+   as there is no overlapping change as the stash being applied.
+
+ * "git submodule update" learned "--force" option to get rid of local
+   changes in submodules and replace them with the up-to-date version.
+
+ * "git stash apply @{99999}" now is diagnosed as an error, unless you
+   really have that many stash entries.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.5
+------------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes in 1.7.5.X maintenance track are
+included in this release.
+
+ * "git config" used to choke with an insanely long line.
+   (merge ef/maint-strbuf-init later)
+
+ * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to totally
+   ignore a change that only rearranged lines within a file.  Such a
+   change now counts as at least a minimum but non zero change.
+
+ * The "--dirstat" option of "diff" family of commands used to use the
+   pathname in the original, instead of the pathname in the result,
+   when renames are involved.
+   (merge jh/dirstat for the above two later)
+
+ * "diff -M --cached" used to use unmerged path as a possible rename
+   source candidate, which made no sense.
+   (merge mz/maint-rename-unmerged later)
+
+ * "git format-patch" when run with "--quiet" option used to produce a
+   nonsense result that consists of alternating empty output.
+   (merge early part of cn/format-patch-quiet later)
+
+ * "git stash -p --no-keep-index" and "git stash --no-keep-index -p" now
+   mean the same thing.
+   (merge dm/stash-k-i-p later)
+
+ * "git upload-pack" (hence "git push" over git native protocol) had a
+   subtle race condition that could lead to a deadlock.
+   (merge jk/maint-upload-pack-shallow later)
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+O=v1.7.5-184-g23f536c
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint ^$O master