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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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could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short
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while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped.
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The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the
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command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same
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command line without the option.
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A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are
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finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).
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Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
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Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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* The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotinate, uses "100
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* The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotiate, uses "100
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Continue" response to avoid having to rewind and resend a large
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payload, which may not be always doable.
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* "git rev-parse --parseopt" learned a new "--stuck-long" option to
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help scripts parse options with an optional parameter.
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* The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to
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fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_
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what are fetched by the same command line without the option.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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point out of the reflog entries for the remote-tracking branch the
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work has been based on.
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* A third-party "receive-pack" (the responder to "git push") can
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advertise the "no-thin" capability to tell "git push" not to use
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the thin-pack optimization. Our receive-pack has always been
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capable of accepting and fattening a thin-pack, and will continue
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not to ask "git push" to use a non-thin pack.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

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