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Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the first half of the fourth …
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.

* On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed
unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it.
Now we do.

* remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg
repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there".

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UI, Workflows & Features

* 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
broken tree objects. "filter-branch" can again be used to to do
so.

* "git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger
than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed
integers on all platforms.
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).

* When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then
loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to
prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to
has_sha1_file().
(merge 45e8a74 jk/has-sha1-file-retry-packed later to maint).

* "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical
"A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name
from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the
preferred author name.
(merge ea16794 ap/commit-author-mailmap later to maint).

* "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which
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