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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt42
-rwxr-xr-xGIT-VERSION-GEN2
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
index 4de5b6611c..786a702420 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,16 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a
+ duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left
+ behind.
+ (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint).
+
+ * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory
+ itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while
+ comparison.
+ (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint).
+
* "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state
incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting
in unnecessary warnings.
@@ -147,38 +157,6 @@ details).
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).
-
- * 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).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 22bb2298ae..4c1a79e3b2 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.12-rc0
+DEF_VER=v1.7.12-rc1
LF='
'