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-Git v2.8.4 Release Notes
-========================
-
-Fixes since v2.8.3
-------------------
-
- * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
-   to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
-   verified.  Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
-   adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
-
- * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
-   dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
-   customize this behaviour.
-
- * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
-   shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
-
- * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
-   potential error and warn.
-
- * CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
-
- * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
-   which are all fixed with this.
-
- * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
-   tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
-   with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
-   commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
-   described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag.  It did
-   not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
-   penalize being on a side branch of a merge.  The logic has been
-   updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
-   is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
-   in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
-   commit."
-
- * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
-   executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
-   that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
-   said can be broken with the trace output mixed in.  When running
-   our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
-   to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
-   being tested intact.
-
- * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
-   but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
-
- * When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a
-   faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would
-   result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case.
-   This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead.
-
- * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
-   variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
-   not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
-   known to Git.  They have been taught to do the normalization.
-
- * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
-
- * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
-   dir-diff mode.
-
- * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
-   detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
-
-
-Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.