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Update draft release notes for 1.8.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt

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* Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
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format are now formatted in HTML as well.
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* "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
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pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
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* A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
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give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
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override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
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* "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple
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definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as
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an error, but it now applies the "last one wins" rule used by the
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internal configuration logic. Strictly speaking, this may be an
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API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
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practice.
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* "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
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notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
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