# HG changeset patch
# User Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
# Date 1558715087 25200
# Node ID ba6ca4e8060759728a2afbb9601af4d0ec92a7d4
# Parent  b47e9712000b68e1afa8e9571e0ecd7bc37dede3
relnotes: document changed behavior of ui.origbackuppath pointing to file

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6446

diff -r b47e9712000b -r ba6ca4e80607 relnotes/next
--- 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 ==