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Update draft release notes to 1.8.2

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
* "git branch" now rejects some nonsense combinations of command line
arguments (e.g. giving more than one branch name to rename) with
more case-specific error messages.
* "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
been added.
@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap
mechanism.
* "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learned to list the available
tool backends in a more consistent manner.
* "git mergetool" is aware of TortoiseGitMerge now and uses it over
TortoiseMerge when available.
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
@ -281,7 +291,6 @@ details).
* We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
(merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint).
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
@ -297,7 +306,6 @@ details).
* Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
has been broken since v1.7.12.
(merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint).
* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
@ -319,7 +327,6 @@ details).
* A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
(merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint).
* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
@ -337,6 +344,11 @@ details).
"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
mistake.
* "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or
gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via
HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers.
(merge 5748558 ab/gitweb-use-same-scheme later to maint).
* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
to add a newline after such a line.
@ -364,7 +376,6 @@ details).
versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
distros.
(merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint).
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
@ -385,4 +396,3 @@ details).
* Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
(merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint).