1Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes 2=========================== 3 4Fixes since v1.7.11.5 5--------------------- 6 7This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification. 8 9 - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive 10 documentation. 11 12 - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", 13 but we didn't document it. 14 15 - It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our 16 subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not 17 easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. 18 19 - The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means 20 the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of 21 commands were poorly described in the documentation. 22 23 - Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular 24 file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and 25 tags, which is not true for quite some time. 26 27 - A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement 28 for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. 29 30 - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. 31 32 - "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then 33 died when the human-readable committer name was given 34 insufficiently by getpwent(3).