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   1GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes
   2========================
   3
   4With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
   5currently checked out will be refused by default.  You can choose
   6what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
   7variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.
   8
   9To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
  10push running this release will issue a big warning when the
  11configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
  12
  13  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
  14
  15for more details on the transition plan.
  16
  17
  18Updates since v1.6.1
  19--------------------
  20
  21(subsystems)
  22
  23* git-svn updates.
  24
  25* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed
  26  improvements.
  27
  28* (contrib) git.el updates for better XEmacs compatibility; vc-git.el
  29  is not shiped with git anymore (it is part of official Emacs)
  30
  31(performance)
  32
  33* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded
  34  version.
  35
  36(usability, bells and whistles)
  37
  38* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well
  39
  40* @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on.  This is
  41  accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere
  42  a branch name is expected.  E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}"
  43  "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}".
  44
  45* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk.
  46
  47* "git add -p" learned to find a hunk with given text with '/'.
  48
  49* "git add -p" optionally can be told to work with just the command letter
  50  without Enter.
  51
  52* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the
  53  title of the offending patch.
  54
  55* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options
  56  to underlying "git apply".
  57
  58* "git am" learned --ignore-date option.
  59
  60* "git blame" aligns author names better when they are spelled in
  61  non US-ASCII encoding.
  62
  63* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty
  64  repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote
  65  repository.
  66
  67* "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}".
  68
  69* "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if
  70  exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given.
  71
  72* "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to
  73  the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation
  74  configuration.
  75
  76* "git cvsserver" learned to handle 'noop' command some CVS clients seem
  77  to expect to work.
  78
  79* "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close
  80  hunks together and show context between them.
  81
  82* The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words"
  83  can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration.
  84
  85* "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm.
  86
  87* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits
  88  that do not change the contents.
  89
  90* "git fsck" now checks loose objects in alternate object stores, instead
  91  of misreporting them as missing.
  92
  93* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized.
  94
  95* "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting.
  96
  97* "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere
  98  with --root option.
  99
 100* "git reset --merge" is a new mode that works similar to the way
 101  "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while
 102  switching to another commit.
 103
 104* "git tag" learned --contains that works the same way as the same option
 105  from "git branch".
 106
 107
 108Fixes since v1.6.1
 109------------------
 110
 111All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this
 112release, unless otherwise noted.
 113
 114Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
 115v1.6.1.X series.
 116
 117* "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to
 118  the superproject.
 119
 120* "git bundle" did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given
 121  from the command line wanted to.
 122
 123* "git filter-branch" unnecessarily refused to work when you had
 124  checked out a different commit from what is recorded in the superproject
 125  index in a submodule.
 126
 127* "git filter-branch" incorrectly tried to update a nonexistent work tree
 128  at the end when it is run in a bare repository.
 129
 130* "git mergetool" used to ignore autocrlf and other attributes
 131  based content rewriting.
 132
 133* branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate
 134  the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is
 135  clean.
 136
 137* "git -p cmd" when cmd is not a built-in one left the display in funny state
 138  when killed in the middle.
 139
 140--
 141exec >/var/tmp/1
 142O=v1.6.1.3-371-gc19923a
 143echo O=$(git describe master)
 144git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint