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

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UI, Workflows & Features
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* Having multiple "fixup!" on a line in the rebase instruction sheet
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did not work very well with "git rebase -i --autosquash".
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* "git log" learned the "--author-date-order" option, with which the
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output is topologically sorted and commits in parallel histories
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are shown intermixed together based on the author timestamp.
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* Various subcommands of "git submodule" refused to run from anywhere
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other than the top of the working tree of the superproject, but
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they have been taught to let you run from a subdirectory.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* The original way to specify remote repository using .git/branches/
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used to have a nifty feature. The code to support the feature was
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still in a function but the caller was changed not to call it 5
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years ago, breaking that feature and leaving the supporting code
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unreachable. The dead code has been removed.
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* "git pack-refs" that races with new ref creation or deletion have
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been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which
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has been tightened up.
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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* The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented.
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(merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint).
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* "git name-rev --refs=tags/v*" were forbidden, which was a bit
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inconvenient (you had to give a pattern to match refs fully, like
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--refs=refs/tags/v*).

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