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Latter half of the second batch for 1.8.0

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.12
UI, Workflows & Features
* A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
the logged-in user has been added.
* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
temporary copy of the working tree when available.
@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ Foreign Interface
* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
@ -51,6 +53,33 @@ 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).
* Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
(merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
* Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
example.
(merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).
* "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
submodule was misspelt.
(merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).
* Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
fixed not to do so.
* The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
(merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint).
* When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
(merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint).
* "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
(merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint).
* When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to