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Update draft release notes to 1.8.5

List notable topics that graduated during Jonathan's interim
maintainership.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 11 years ago
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@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this
behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>"
now before 2.0 is released.

The default prefix for "git svn" will change in Git 2.0. For a long
time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
refs/remotes, but it will place them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.


Updates since v1.8.4
--------------------
@ -71,6 +76,20 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. @@ -71,6 +76,20 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.

UI, Workflows & Features

* "git replace" helper no longer allows an object to be replaced with
another object of a different type to avoid confusion (you can
still manually craft such replacement using "git update-ref", as an
escape hatch).

* "git status" no longer prints dirty status information for
submodules for which submodule.$name.ignore is set to "all".

* "git rebase -i" honours core.abbrev when preparing the insn sheet
for editing.

* "git status" during a cherry-pick shows what original commit is
being picked.

* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".

@ -182,6 +201,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features @@ -182,6 +201,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

* Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.

* If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we
should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we
apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat.
@ -215,6 +236,15 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance @@ -215,6 +236,15 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).

* "git shortlog" used to choke and die when there is a malformed
commit (e.g. missing authors); it now simply ignore such a commit
and keeps going.
(merge cd4f09e jk/shortlog-tolerate-broken-commit later to maint).

* "git merge-recursive" did not parse its "--diff-algorithm=" command
line option correctly.
(merge 6562928 jk/diff-algo later to maint).

* When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a

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