* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation.
+* Updates to emacs bindings.
+
(portability)
* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on
(performance)
+* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute
+ necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which
+ potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in
+ environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS).
+
* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
+* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage
+ changes" instead of "add contents to the staging area" which amounts
+ to the same thing.
+
* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing
--exclude=paths option.
* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
+* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits.
+
* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding
by default.
cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in
format-patch among other things).
-* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added.
-
* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged",
to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the
contents staged in the index?"
-* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human
- consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff"
- learnt to make use of it.
-
* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
unambiguously abbreviated refname.
* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
+* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or
+ "-q"uietly.
+
* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes
configuration.
* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now.
-* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed
- to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?]
+* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and
+ maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to
+ generate patches for the given revision range.
* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
out submodules.
All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
+* Porcelains implemented as shell scripts were utterly confused when you
+ entered to a subdirectory of a work tree from sideways, following a
+ symbolic link (this may need to be backported to older releases later).
+
+* Tracking symbolic links would work better on filesystems whose lstat()
+ returns incorrect st_size value for them.
+
* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S
is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in
it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
is a path in it).
+* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and
+ --3way options given from the command line initially.
+
* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
been resurrected.
-* Giving 3 or more tree-ish to "git diff" is supposed to show the combined
- diff from second and subsequent trees to the first one. b75271d ("git
- diff <tree>{3,}": do not reverse order of arguments, 2008-10-10) needs
- to be cherry-picked to 'maint'.
-
* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
-* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
- into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
+* "git http-push" did not understand URI scheme other than opaquelocktoken
+ when acquiring a lock from the server (this may need to be backported to
+ older releases later).
+
+* After "git rebase -p" stopped with conflicts while replaying a merge,
+ "git rebase --continue" did not work (may need to be backported to older
+ releases).
+
+* "git revert" records relative to which parent a revert was made when
+ reverting a merge. Together with new documentation that explains issues
+ around reverting a merge and merging from the updated branch later, this
+ hopefully will reduce user confusion (this may need to be backported to
+ older releases later).
+
+* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to
+ be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has
+ since been modified.
* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
telling saying these two options are incompatible.
timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
-* "git tag" did not complain about incompatible combination of options
- e.g. "tag -l -d" (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
-
-* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a
- large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
- picked to maint).
+* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments
+ correctly.
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0.4-697-g168d5bd
+O=v1.6.1-rc3-74-gf66bc5f
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint