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Update draft release notes to 1.8.4

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
* "git describe" learned "--first-parent" option to limit its closest
tagged commmit search to the first-parent chain.
tagged commit search to the first-parent chain.
* "git merge foo" that might have meant "git merge origin/foo" is
diagnosed with a more informative error message.
@ -32,14 +32,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Updates to completion (both bash and zsh) helpers.
* The behaviour of the "--chain-reply-to" option of "git send-email"
have changed at 1.7.0, and we added a warning/advice message to
help users adjust to the new behaviour back then, but we kept it
around for too long. The message has finally been removed.
* "git fetch origin master" unlike "git fetch origin" or "git fetch"
did not update "refs/remotes/origin/master"; this was an early
design decision to keep the update of remote tracking branches
predictable, but in practice it turns out that people find it more
convenient to opportunisticly update them whenever we have a
convenient to opportunistically update them whenever we have a
chance, and we have been updating them when we run "git push" which
already breaks the original "predictability" anyway.
* The configuration variable core.checkstat was advertised in the
documentation but the code expected core.statinfo instead.
For now, we accept both core.checkstat and core.statinfo, but the
latter will be removed in the longer term.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
@ -74,6 +84,31 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
* Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
broken in the update to v1.8.3.
(merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).
* zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not
work due to slight differences in array variable notation between
these two shells.
(merge d0583da tg/maint-zsh-svn-remote-prompt later to maint).
* An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git
can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link
by mistake.
(merge 4c32e36 nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix later to maint).
* "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented.
(merge 90d32d1 tr/push-no-verify-doc later to maint).
* Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for
testing.
(merge 416fda6 fc/makefile later to maint).
* "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an
editor.
(merge 2520677 rs/commit-m-no-edit later to maint).
* "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22"
incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be
rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead).