Update draft release notes to 1.7.12

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2012-07-24 14:08:43 -07:00
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@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG. $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
* The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
$HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
these files exist. when these files exist.
* Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
take advantage of object types that are expected in the context, take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
@ -128,6 +128,23 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). details).
* "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
(merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
* "$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 * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake. of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
(merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint). (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).