Almost -rc0 for 1.8.5

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Oct 28, 2013 at 10:52 UTC 0d6cf2471f426dd2b742e2285aad78381738be96
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
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@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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206 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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208 + * The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able.
209 +
210 * "git repack" is now written in C.
211
212 * Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.
@@ -242,6 +244,19 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance
244 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
245 details).
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247 + * Bash prompting code to deal with an SVN remote as an upstream
248 + were coded in a way not supported by older Bash versions (3.x).
249 + (merge 52ec889 sg/prompt-svn-remote-fix later to maint).
250 +
251 + * The fall-back parsing of commit objects with broken author or
252 + committer lines were less robust than ideal in picking up the
253 + timestamps.
254 + (merge 03818a4 jk/split-broken-ident later to maint).
255 +
256 + * "git rev-list --objects ^v1.0^ v1.0" gave v1.0 tag itself in the
257 + output, but "git rev-list --objects v1.0^..v1.0" did not.
258 + (merge 895c5ba jc/revision-range-unpeel later to maint).
259 +
260 * "git clone" gave some progress messages to the standard output, not
261 to the standard error, and did not allow suppressing them with the
262 --no-progress option.