| Git v1.7.11.6 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v1.7.11.5 |
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| This is primarily documentation and low-impact code clarification. |
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| - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive |
| documentation. |
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| - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r", |
| but we didn't document it. |
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| - It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our |
| subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not |
| easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set. |
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| - 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. |
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| - Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular |
| file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and |
| tags, which is not true for quite some time. |
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| - A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement |
| for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms. |
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| - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API. |
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| - "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). |
