Update draft release notes to 1.7.11

A handful of topics have been merged to maintenance releases, and the first half of 6th batch graduates to 'master'. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Apr 26, 2012 at 11:02 UTC 010b260e6f23b8964ef53b989e1c1baa8973edbe
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
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@@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
86 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
87 details).
88
89 + * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
90 + (merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint).
91 +
92 + * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
93 + ref.
94 + (merge 0997ada mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref later to maint).
95 +
96 + * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking
97 + pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API.
98 + (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint).
99 +
100 * The parser in "fast-import" did not diagnose ":9" style references
101 that is not followed by required SP/LF as an error.
102 (merge 06454cb pw/fast-import-dataref-parsing later to maint).
@@ -113,56 +124,3 @@ details).
124 * Giving "--continue" to a conflicted "rebase -i" session skipped a
125 commit that only results in changes to submodules.
126 (merge a6754cd jk/rebase-i-submodule-conflict-only later to maint).
116 -
117 - * When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code
118 - did not kick in, and failed with an error that said "git-subcmd"
119 - was not found.
120 - (merge 38f865c jk/run-command-eacces later to maint).
121 -
122 - * The 'push to upstream' implementation was broken in some corner
123 - cases. "git push $there" without refspec, when the current branch
124 - is set to push to a remote different from $there, used to push to
125 - $there using the upstream information to a remote unreleated to
126 - $there.
127 - (merge 135dade jc/push-upstream-sanity later to maint).
128 -
129 - * "git clean -d -f" (not "-d -f -f") is supposed to protect nested
130 - working trees of independent git repositories that exist in the
131 - current project working tree from getting removed, but the
132 - protection applied only to such working trees that are at the
133 - top-level of the current project by mistake.
134 - (merge ae2f203 jc/maint-clean-nested-worktree-in-subdir later to maint).
135 -
136 - * Rename detection logic used to match two empty files as renames
137 - during merge-recursive, leading unnatural mismerges.
138 - (merge 4f7cb99 jk/diff-no-rename-empty later to maint).
139 -
140 - * An age-old corner case bug in combine diff (only triggered with -U0
141 - and the hunk at the beginning of the file needs to be shown) has
142 - been fixed.
143 - (merge e5e9b56 rs/combine-diff-zero-context-at-the-beginning later to maint).
144 -
145 - * When "git commit --template F" errors out because the user did not
146 - touch the message, it claimed that it aborts due to "empty
147 - message", which was utterly wrong.
148 - (merge 1f08c2c jc/commit-unedited-template later to maint).
149 -
150 - * "git add -p" is not designed to deal with unmerged paths but did
151 - not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail.
152 - (merge 4066bd6 jk/add-p-skip-conflicts later to maint).
153 -
154 - * "git commit --author=$name" did not tell the name that was being
155 - recorded in the resulting commit to hooks, even though it does do
156 - so when the end user overrode the authorship via the
157 - "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" environment variable.
158 - (merge 7dfe8ad jc/commit-hook-authorship later to maint).
159 -
160 - * The regexp configured with diff.wordregex was incorrectly reused
161 - across files.
162 - (merge 6440d34 tr/maint-word-diff-regex-sticky later to maint).
163 -
164 - * Running "notes merge --commit" failed to perform correctly when run
165 - from any directory inside $GIT_DIR/. When "notes merge" stops with
166 - conflicts, $GIT_DIR/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE is the place a user edits
167 - to resolve it.
168 - (merge dabba59 jh/notes-merge-in-git-dir-worktree later to maint).