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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt index da51dd5392..4088a166f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.1.txt @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. + * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the + branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the + option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the + documentation misleading. + * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of commands were poorly described in the documentation. @@ -36,6 +41,14 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. + * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line + correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other + places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that + does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode + changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places + in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from + this problem. + * "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). @@ -44,9 +57,22 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12 did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been fixed not to do so. + * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + option. + + * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path + when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. + Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such + a case. + * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). + * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having + the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is + configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication + for POST. + * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). |