Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
For now, comment out the description on two "git status" UI configuration, until the reverted topic can be resurrected. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report
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+ multiple paths that cannot be removed.
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+ * "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits
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+ to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins.
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* Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
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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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- * "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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+### * "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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* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
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directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
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* "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
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changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
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- response was to stash them and re-run).
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+ response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner
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+ case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed.
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* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
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e.g. "git log @".
@@ -147,6 +154,9 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
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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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+ * "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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* Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
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"A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part
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needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes