- (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).
-
- * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
- confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
- superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
- path to the current directory.
- (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint).
-
- * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
- but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
- a similar logic on its own.
- (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).