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+Git v1.7.12 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Updates since v1.7.11
+---------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
+ all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
+ (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
+ around issues on Mac OS.
+
+ I think there still are other places that need conversion
+ (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
+ should be a good first step in the right direction.
+
+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
+ $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
+
+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
+ $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,
+ e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a
+ commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong
+ the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
+
+ * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
+ merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
+
+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
+ the "git credential" plumbing command.
+
+ * "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
+ where "man" viewer is not widely available.
+
+ * "git clone --local $path" started its life as an experiment to
+ optionally use link/copy when cloning a repository on the disk, but
+ we didn't deprecate it after we made the option a no-op to always
+ use the optimization. The command learned "--no-local" option to
+ turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
+ URL.
+
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+ hints to the user.
+
+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
+ "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
+ default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
+ the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
+
+ * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
+ history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
+ each commit in the resulting history.
+
+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
+ in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
+ where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
+ specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
+
+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
+ a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
+ completion part while making prompting part always available.
+
+ * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
+ similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
+ highlights them accordingly.
+
+
+Foreign Interface
+
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
+ attachments.
+
+ * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
+
+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
+ limitations, etc.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
+
+ * Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
+
+ * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
+ more modern style.
+
+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
+ message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
+ will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
+ their log messages.
+
+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
+ from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
+ in-core while they are doing their thing.
+
+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
+ fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
+ possible.
+
+ * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
+ cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
+ discard it.
+
+ * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
+ minute before the code freeze.
+
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+
+
+Fixes since v1.7.11
+-------------------
+
+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 submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
+ its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
+ and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
+
+ * "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).