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Update draft release notes to 1.7.12
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Jul 24, 2012
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$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,
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).

* "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).
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