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

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Updates since v1.8.3
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Foreign interface
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Foreign interfaces and ports.
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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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* The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has
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been updated to kick in not just when talking http/https but also
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imap(s) and smtp.
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* Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
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maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
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does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do
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--dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now.
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* git-remote-hg/bzr (in contrib/) updates.
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* git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate,
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when https:// connection failed.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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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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is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just
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like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same
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name.
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* "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
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changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
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response was to stash them and re-run).
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* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
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e.g. "git log @".
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* "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
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more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
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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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* The codepath to read from marks files in fast-import/export did not
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have to accept anything but 40-hex representation of the object
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name. Further, fast-export did not need full in-core object
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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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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(merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint).
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* The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly.
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(merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint).
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* "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that
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renamed the $path being followed.
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(merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint).
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* When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we
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did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''".
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(merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint).
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* "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the
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end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
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cases.

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