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Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt

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UI, Workflows & Features
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* Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS
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environment variable, we now specify a reasonable default for "lv"
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via the "LV" environment variable when spawning the pager.
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* Two-level configuration variable names in "branch.*" and "remote.*"
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hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were
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not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* When parsing a 40-hex string into the object name, the string is
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checked to see if it can be interpreted as a ref so that a warning
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can be given for ambiguity. The code kicked in even when the
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core.warnambiguousrefs is set to false to squelch this warning, in
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which case the cycles spent to look at the ref namespace were an
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expensive no-op, as the result was discarded without being used.
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* The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to
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be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are
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contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
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* The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote
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the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace.
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(merge 2a07e43 ow/stash-with-ifs later to maint).
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* The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
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a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
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names.

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