Fixes since v1.7.9
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+ * The makefile allowed environment variable X seep into it result in
+ command names suffixed with unnecessary strings.
+
+ * The set of included header files in compat/inet-{ntop,pton}
+ wrappers was updated for Windows some time ago, but in a way that
+ broke Solaris build.
+
+ * rpmbuild noticed an unpackaged but installed *.mo file and failed.
+
* Subprocesses spawned from various git programs were often left running
to completion even when the top-level process was killed.
+ * "git add -e" learned not to show a diff for an otherwise unmodified
+ submodule that only has uncommitted local changes in the patch
+ prepared by for the user to edit.
+
+ * Typo in "git branch --edit-description my-tpoic" was not diagnosed.
+
+ * Using "git grep -l/-L" together with options -W or --break may not
+ make much sense as the output is to only count the number of hits
+ and there is no place for file breaks, but the latter options made
+ "-l/-L" to miscount the hits.
+
* "git log --first-parent $pathspec" did not stay on the first parent
chain and veered into side branch from which the whole change to the
specified paths came.
+ * "git merge --no-edit $tag" failed to honor the --no-edit option.
+
+ * "git merge --ff-only $tag" failed because it cannot record the
+ required mergetag without creating a merge, but this is so common
+ operation for branch that is used _only_ to follow the upstream, so
+ it was changed to allow fast-forwarding without recording the mergetag.
+
+ * "git mergetool" now gives an empty file as the common base version
+ to the backend when dealing with the "both sides added, differently"
+ case.
+
* "git push -q" was not sufficiently quiet.
* When "git push" fails to update any refs, the client side did not
report an error correctly to the end user.
+ * "rebase" and "commit --amend" failed to work on commits with ancient
+ timestamps near year 1970.
+
+ * When asking for a tag to be pulled, "request-pull" did not show the
+ name of the tag prefixed with "tags/", which would have helped older
+ clients.
+
+ * "git submodule add $path" forgot to recompute the name to be stored
+ in .gitmodules when the submodule at $path was once added to the
+ superproject and already initialized.
+
+ * Many small corner case bugs on "git tag -n" was corrected.
+
Also contains minor fixes and documentation updates.