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Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt

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UI, Workflows & Features
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* The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
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off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
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can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
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* The "--cover-letter" option to "git format-patch" can be turned on
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(or off) by default with format.coverLetter configuration
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variable. By setting it to 'auto', you can turn it on only for a
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series with two or more patches.
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* The bash completion support (in contrib/) learned that cherry-pick
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takes a few more options than it already knew about.
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* "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
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list of commands are given with "-a".
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* Updates for building under msvc.
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* The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
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pack has been shrunk.
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* The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
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the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
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complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v1.8.2
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
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GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
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like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.
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(merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint).
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* "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to
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"our" side in certain cases.
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(merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint).
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* Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
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the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
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Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and

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