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Update draft release notes to 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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UI, Workflows & Features
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* Command-line completion for tcsh has been added.
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* Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
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* We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
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causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
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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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* When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
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behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
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branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync
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them up by pushing or pulling.
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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 log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
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the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
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of the blobs without filtering.
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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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