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Update draft release notes to 2.2
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Oct 8, 2014
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UI, Workflows & Features

* "git archive" learned to filter what gets archived with pathspec.

* "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user
configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the
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for a tagged commit, gained a cousin "%D" that just gives the
"tagname" without frills.

* "git push" learned "--signed" push, that allows a push (i.e.
request to update the refs on the other side to point at a new
history, together with the transmission of necessary objects) to be
signed, so that it can be verified and audited, using the GPG
signature of the person who pushed, that the tips of branches at a
public repository really point the commits the pusher wanted to,
without having to "trust" the server.

Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

* The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
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* "git hash-object" was taught a "--literally" option to help
debugging.

* When running a required clean filter, we do not have to mmap the
original before feeding the filter. Instead, stream the file
contents directly to the filter and process its output.

Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

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