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Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt

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Foreign interfaces and ports.
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* MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the
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credential helper interface from Git.pm.
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* Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that
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this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it
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ahead.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to
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its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so
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make a copy if you want to keep it").
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* The revision traversal logic to improve culling of irrelevant
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parents while traversing a mergy history has been updated.
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* Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other
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codepaths) have been plugged.
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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* Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
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"A U. Thor" <[email protected]>, where the human readable part
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needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes
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around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and
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unquoted strings).
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(merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).
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* "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
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request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
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when used as a persistent CGI.

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