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Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
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For now, comment out the description on two "git status" UI
configuration, until the reverted topic can be resurrected.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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UI, Workflows & Features

* "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report
multiple paths that cannot be removed.

* "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits
to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins.

* Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first
thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".

* "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).
### * "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).

* "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string,
directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref
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* "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local
changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal
response was to stash them and re-run).
response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner
case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed.

* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).

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

* Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
"A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part
needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes
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