$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 $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
+ when these files exist.
* Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
completion part while making prompting part always available.
+ * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
+ similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
+ highlights them accordingly.
+
Foreign Interface
cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
discard it.
+ * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
+ minute before the code freeze.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state
+ incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting
+ in unnecessary warnings.
+ (merge add416a jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation for revision range specifiers (e.g. A..B, A^@)
+ has been updated.
+ (merge ca5ee2d mh/maint-revisions-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
+ its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
+ and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
+
+ * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
+ of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
+ (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
+
+ * "$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).
+
+ * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
+ filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.
+ (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint).
+
* When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
(merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).