Update draft release notes to 1.8.5

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

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
index 49c037b6017a1741925e995eb4e22fc7aea5d86f..b1fc30fef4934e12f24fedc3d5a5f121e5cb7a2f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt
@@ -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>"
 now before 2.0 is released.
 
 behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>"
 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,
    e.g. "git log @".
 
  * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
    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
    should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we
    apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat.
  * If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we
    should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we
    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
 details).
 
 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 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
    computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
    dropped connection.  The server side has been taught to send a
  * When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
    computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
    dropped connection.  The server side has been taught to send a