add news item for git-annex 8.20200309

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-git-annex 7.20200202.7 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * add: --force-annex/--force-git options make it easier to override
-     annex.largefiles configuration (and potentially safer as it avoids
-     bugs like the smudge bug fixed in the last release).
-   * reinject --known: Fix bug that prevented it from working in a bare repo.
-   * Support being used in a git repository that uses sha256 rather than sha1.
-   * initremote, enableremote: Be stricter about rejecting invalid
-     configuration parameters for remotes, particularly things like foo=true
-     when foo=yes is expected.
-   * initremote, enableremote: Reject unknown configuration parameters
-     provided to these commands.
-   * initremote: Added --whatelse option, to show additional
-     configuration parameters you might want to set. Eg:
-     git annex initremote type=directory encryption=none --whatelse
-   * Added LISTCONFIGS to external special remote protocol. Special remote
-     programs that use GETCONFIG/SETCONFIG are recommended to implement it.
-   * init: Avoid an ugly error message when http remote has no git-annex
-     uuid configured.
-   * Support git remotes that need http basic auth to be accessed,
-     using git credential to get the password.
-   * Display a warning when concurrency is enabled but ssh connection caching
-     is not enabled or won't work due to a crippled filesystem.
-   * Makefile: Move the fish completion to the vendor\_completions.d directory.
-   * Fixed a test suite failure when run in the C locale."""]]

doc/news/version_7.20200204.mdwn

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-git-annex 7.20200204 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Fix build with persistent-template 2.8.0.
-   * Makefile: Really move the fish completion to the
-     vendor\_completions.d directory."""]]

doc/news/version_8.20200309.mdwn

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+git-annex 8.20200309 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * Fix bug that caused unlocked annexed dotfiles to be added to git by the
+     smudge filter when annex.dotfiles was not set.
+   * Upgrade other repos than the current one by running git-annex upgrade
+     inside them, which avoids problems with upgrade code making assumptions
+     that the cwd will be inside the repo being upgraded. In particular,
+     this fixes a problem where upgrading a v7 repo to v8 caused an ugly
+     git error message.
+   * Fix upgrade failure when a file has been deleted from the working tree.
+   * Fix regression 1 month ago that prevented external special remotes from
+     using GETCONFIG to query values like "name".
+   * Improve behavior when a directory git-annex is writing to gets
+     unmounted. Previously it could in some cases re-create the mount point
+     and directory tree, and even write object contents to the wrong disk.
+   * Don't ignore --debug when it is followed by -c.
+   * whereis: If a remote fails to report on urls where a key
+     is located, display a warning, rather than giving up and not displaying
+     any information.
+   * When external special remotes fail but neglect to provide an error
+     message, say what request failed, which is better than displaying an
+     empty error message to the user.
+   * git-annex config: Only allow configs be set that are ones git-annex
+     actually supports reading from repo-global config, to avoid confusion.
+   * Avoid converting .git file in a worktree or submodule to a symlink
+     when the repository is not a git-annex repository.
+   * Linux standalone: Use md5sum to shorten paths in .cache/git-annex/locales
+   * Fix build with ghc 8.8 (MonadFail)
+     Thanks, Peter Simons
+   * stack.yaml: Updated to lts-14.27."""]]