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- O=v1.7.0.2-322-g4e7d08a
+Git v1.7.1 Release Notes (draft)
+================================
+
+Updates since v1.7.0
+--------------------
+
+ * Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask
+ password can be told to use an external program given via GIT_ASKPASS.
+
+ * Color values given to "color.<cmd>.<slot>" configuration can now have
+ more than one attributes (e.g. "bold ul").
+
+ * "git apply --whitespace=fix" didn't work well when an early patch in
+ a patch series adds trailing blank lines and a later one depended on
+ such a block of blank lines at the end.
+
+ * "git am" learned "--keep-cr" option to handle inputs that are
+ mixture of changes to files with and without CRLF line endings.
+
+ * "git cvsimport" learned -R option to leave revision mapping between
+ CVS revisions and resulting git commits.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" learned %(symref), %(symref:short) and %(flag)
+ tokens.
+
+ * "git hash-object --stdin-paths" can take "--no-filters" option now.
+
+ * "git init" can be told to look at init.templatedir configuration
+ variable (obviously that has to come from either /etc/gitconfig or
+ $HOME/.gitconfig).
+
+ * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that
+ are not managed by git.
+
+ * "git grep" learned --color=auto/always/never.
+
+ * "git grep" learned to paint filename and line-number in colors.
+
+ * "git merge-file" learned to use custom conflict marker size and also use
+ the "union merge" behaviour.
+
+ * "git notes" command has been rewritten in C and learned quite a
+ many commands.
+
+ * "git request-pull" identifies the commit the request is relative to in
+ a more readable way.
+
+ * "git reset" learned "--keep" option that lets you discard commits
+ near the tip while preserving your local changes in a way similar
+ to how "git checkout branch" does.
+
+ * "git svn" should work better when interacting with repositories
+ with CRLF line endings.
+
+ * "git imap-send" learned to support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
+
+Fixes since v1.7.0
+------------------
+
+All of the fixes in v1.7.0.X maintenance series are included in this
+release, unless otherwise noted.
+
+ * "git add frotz/nitfol" did not complain when the entire frotz/ directory
+ was ignored.
+
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+echo O=$(git describe)
++O=v1.7.0.2-323-g0d0925c
+git shortlog --no-merges ^maint $O..