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Update draft release notes to 1.8.5

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
UI, Workflows & Features
* xdg-open can be used as a browser backend for "git web-browse"
(hence to show "git help -w" output), when available.
* "git grep" and "git show" pays attention to "--textconv" option
when these commands are told to operate on blob objects (e.g. "git
grep -e pattern HEAD:Makefile").
@ -132,10 +135,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured
to build on some other branch that no longer exists.
* A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and
will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving
data over the wire.
* Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to
the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to
allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such
@ -153,8 +152,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer"
optimization.
* Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both
Makefile and makefile can be used in more places.
* Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both Makefile
and makefile and ":(glob)foo/**/bar" that matches "bar" in "foo"
and any subdirectory of "foo" can be used in more places.
* The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the
configuration applies. For example,
@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* "git for-each-ref" when asking for merely the object name does not
have to parse the object pointed at by the refs; the codepath has
been optimized.
* The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able.
* "git repack" is now written in C.
@ -244,6 +248,15 @@ 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
details).
* A fast-import stream expresses a pathname with funny characters by
quoting them in C style; remote-hg remote helper forgot to unquote
such a path.
(merge 1136265 ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote later to maint).
* "git reset -p HEAD" has a codepath to special case it to behave
differently from resetting to contents of other commits, but a
recent change broke it.
* Coloring around octopus merges in "log --graph" output was screwy.
(merge 339c17b hn/log-graph-color-octopus later to maint).