changeset 42394:ba6ca4e80607

relnotes: document changed behavior of ui.origbackuppath pointing to file Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6446
author Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
date Fri, 24 May 2019 09:24:47 -0700
parents b47e9712000b
children f3d06d37e194
files relnotes/next
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/relnotes/next	Sat May 11 00:17:42 2019 -0700
+++ b/relnotes/next	Fri May 24 09:24:47 2019 -0700
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
    first three lines of the graph and then `.`. This is no longer
    supported.
 
+ * If `ui.origbackuppath` had been (incorrectly) configured to point
+   to a file, we will now replace that file by a directory and put
+   backups in that directory. This is similar to how we would
+   previously replace files *in* the configured directory by
+   subdirectories.
 
 == Internal API Changes ==