From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:08:43 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.7.12 X-Git-Tag: v1.7.12-rc1~19 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=476109fa4c261c57cf20858b1879d5fede32e32c;p=git.git Update draft release notes to 1.7.12 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt index f86e537e4..904561de1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features $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 $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively + when these files exist. * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, @@ -128,6 +128,23 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list + of supported backends, like "git difftool" does. + (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint). + + * "$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 " order of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).