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Update draft release notes to 1.8.3

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -37,9 +37,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
* "git status" suggests users to look into using--untracked=no option
* In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
message with the final log message contents after applymsg hook
munges it.
* "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option
when it takes too long.
* "git status" shows a bit more information to "git status" during a
rebase/bisect session.
* "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
server side supports this feature.
@ -80,6 +88,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome
to use correctly and also inefficient.
* Codepaths that inspect log-message-to-be and decide when to add a
new Signed-off-by line in various commands have been consolidated.
* The pkt-line API, implementation and its callers have been cleaned
up to make them more robust.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -91,6 +105,19 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
* "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta
depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
(merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
* "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
of mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers.
(merge 8f82aad nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes later to maint).
* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
(merge 2092678 kb/name-hash later to maint).
* Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
(merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint).
@ -130,7 +157,6 @@ details).
* The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
(merge b174eb4 ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap later to maint).
* The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a