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Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
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to).
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* "git log --format" specifier learned %C(auto) token that tells Git
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to use color when interpolating %d (decoration), %h (short commit
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object name), etc. for terminal output.
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* "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
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log file.
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* Updates for building under msvc.
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* A handful of issues in the code to traverse working tree to find
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untracked and/or ignored files have been fixed, and the general
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codepath involved in "status -u" and "clean" have been cleaned up
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and optimized.
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* The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
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pack has been shrunk.
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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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* When receive-pack detects error in the pack header it received in
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order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
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returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang
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sideband thread.
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(merge 49ecfa1 jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure later to maint).
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* Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked
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files needs to be escaped with another '%'.
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(merge 24b6132 fc/untracked-zsh-prompt later to maint).
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* A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
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crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
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timestamp can always be found in it.

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