X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?p=git.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2FRelNotes%2F1.7.12.1.txt;h=b8f04af19f9691d046acc914acff78bbfd81f39f;hp=671e3d2eb52160bbac4be214577750f0bc90d105;hb=304b7d99a705e8c125650dda347a571402222a3e;hpb=39e2e020608716e8710ff391e0d2b6d035cb3dd6 diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt index 671e3d2eb..b8f04af19 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." started to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its + leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is + fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure + to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than + ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't. + * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". @@ -92,6 +98,9 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive documentation. + * "git-jump" script (in contrib/) did not work well when + diff.noprefix or diff.mnemonicprefix is in effect. + * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and tags, which is not true for quite some time. @@ -121,3 +130,5 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the documentation misleading. + +Also contains numerous documentation updates.