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Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt

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@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
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Updates since v1.8.3
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Foreign interfaces and ports.
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Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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* Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version.
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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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* Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
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thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
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Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
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* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
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directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
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"refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code,
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matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few)
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have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would
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match foo/bar, foo/a/bar, foo/a/b/bar, 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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(merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).
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* Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different
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contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit,
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apply, and merge) used to leak memory that held the array of index
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entries, which has been plugged.
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(merge a0fc4db rs/discard-index-discard-array 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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