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Update draft release notes to 1.8.5

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

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -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>" behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>"
now before 2.0 is released. 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 Updates since v1.8.4
-------------------- --------------------
@ -71,6 +76,20 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
UI, Workflows & Features 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, * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @". e.g. "git log @".
@ -182,6 +201,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.
* If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we * If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we
should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we
apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat. apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat.
@ -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 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). 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 * When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a