Update draft release notes to 1.7.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 24, 2012 at 14:08 UTC
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@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
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* The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
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- $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
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- these files exist.
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+ $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
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+ when these files exist.
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* Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
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take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
@@ -128,6 +128,23 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
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+ of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
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+ (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
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+ * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
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+ message user edits was not documented.
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+ (merge 41f597d jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
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+ when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
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+ getpwent(3).
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+ (merge f20f387 jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early later to maint).
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+ * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format
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+ its message.
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+ (merge 447b99c jk/maint-advise-vaddf later to maint).
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* "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
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of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
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(merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).