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Seventh batch for the 2.8 cycle

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Git 2.8 Release Notes
=====================
Backward compatibility note
---------------------------
The rsync:// transport has been removed.
Updates since v2.7
------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when
the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
nobody noticed nor complained about it.
* "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
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commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
given <pattern>.
* The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable can be used to
force the user to always set user.email & user.name configuration
variables, serving as a reminder for those who work on multiple
projects and do not want to put these in their $HOME/.gitconfig.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total
wallclock time.
* Test scripts have been updated to remove assumptions that are not
portable between Git for POSIX and Git for Windows, or to skip ones
with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.
* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
calls to strcpy(3) in test-path-utils that are already safe has
been rewritten to avoid false wanings.
* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
calls to strcpy(3) in "git rerere" that are already safe has been
rewritten to avoid false wanings.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.
(merge 6129c93 js/test-lib-windows-emulated-yes later to maint).
* The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned
that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never
been the case.
(merge 31e3c2d mm/clean-doc-fix later to maint).
* The vimdiff backend for "git mergetool" has been tweaked to arrange
and number buffers in the order that would match the expectation of
majority of people who read left to right, then top down and assign
buffers 1 2 3 4 "mentally" to local base remote merge windows based
on that order.
(merge 2300328 dw/mergetool-vim-window-shuffle later to maint).
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).
(merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint).
(merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint).
(merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint).
(merge f562d7d ah/stripspace-optstring later to maint).