$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
* The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
- $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
- these files exist.
+ $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
+ when these files exist.
* Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
+ of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
+ (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
+
+ * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
+ message user edits was not documented.
+ (merge 41f597d jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
+ when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
+ getpwent(3).
+ (merge f20f387 jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early later to maint).
+
+ * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format
+ its message.
+ (merge 447b99c jk/maint-advise-vaddf later to maint).
+
* "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
(merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).