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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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Junio C Hamano committed Jun 26, 2013
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thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".

* On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start
a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others).

### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).

* "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by
programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in
v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks.
(merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint).

* Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a
path whose name is not in ASCII.
(merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint).

* "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
(merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).

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