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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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thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
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Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
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* On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start
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a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others).
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### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
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### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
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### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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* "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by
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programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in
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v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks.
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(merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint).
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* Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a
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path whose name is not in ASCII.
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(merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint).
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* "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
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(merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).
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