1GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Updates since v1.6.1 5-------------------- 6 7(subsystems) 8 9* git-svn updates. 10 11* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed 12 improvements. 13 14(portability) 15 16(performance) 17 18* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded 19 version. 20 21(usability, bells and whistles) 22 23* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well 24 25* @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on. This is 26 accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere 27 a branch name is expected. E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}" 28 "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}". 29 30* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk. 31 32* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the 33 title of the offending patch. 34 35* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options 36 to underlying "git apply". 37 38* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty 39 repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote 40 repository. 41 42* "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}". 43 44* "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if 45 exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given. 46 47* "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to 48 the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation 49 configuration. 50 51* "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close 52 hunks together and show context between them. 53 54* The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words" 55 can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration. 56 57* "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm. 58 59* Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did 60 not work as expected. 61 62* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits 63 that do not change the contents. 64 65* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. 66 67* "git log" and friends include HEAD to the set of starting points 68 when --all is given. This makes a difference when you are not on 69 any branch. 70 71* "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option that shows the path in full 72 regardless of where in the work tree hierarchy the command was started. 73 74* "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting. 75 76* "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere 77 with --root option. 78 79* "git reset --merge" is a new mode that works similar to the way 80 "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while 81 switching to another commit. 82 83(internal) 84 85 86Fixes since v1.6.1 87------------------ 88 89All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this 90release, unless otherwise noted. 91 92* "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to 93 the superproject. 94 95* git-bundle did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given from the 96 command line wanted to. 97 98* branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate 99 the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is 100 clean. 101 102-- 103exec >/var/tmp/1 104O=v1.6.1.2-252-g8c95d3c 105echo O=$(git describe master) 106git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint