(portability)
+ * Some more MSVC portability patches for msysgit port.
+
+ * Minimum Pthreads emulation for msysgit port.
+
(performance)
+ * More performance improvement patches for msysgit port.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
* More commands learned "--quiet" and "--[no-]progress" options.
* HTTP transfer can use authentication scheme other than basic
(i.e./e.g. digest).
+ * Switching from a version of superproject that used to have a submodule
+ to another version of superproject that no longer has it did not remove
+ the submodule directory when it should (namely, when you are not
+ interested in the submodule at all and didn't clone/checkout).
+
+ * A new attribute conflict-marker-size can be used to change the size of
+ the conflict markers from the default 7; this is useful when tracked
+ contents (e.g. git-merge documentation) have strings that resemble the
+ conflict markers.
+
* "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between
A and B.
+ * "git checkout -m path" to reset the work tree file back into the
+ conflicted state works even when you already ran "git add path" and
+ resolved the conflicts.
+
* "git commit --date='<date>'" can be used to override the author date
just like "git commit --author='<name> <email>'" can be used to
override the author identity.
* "git commit --no-status" can be used to omit the listing of the index
and the work tree status in the editor used to prepare the log message.
+ * "git commit" warns a bit more aggressively until you configure user.email,
+ whose default value almost always is not (and fundamentally cannot be)
+ what you want.
+
+ * "git difftool" has been extended to make it easier to integrate it
+ with gitk.
+
* "git fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update".
+ * "git grep" does not rely on external grep anymore.
+
+ * "git grep" learned "--no-index" option, to search inside contents that
+ are not managed by git.
+
+ * "git merge" learned to pass options specific to strategy-backends. E.g.
+
+ - "git merge -Xsubtree=path/to/directory" can be used to tell the subtree
+ strategy how much to shift the trees explicitly.
+
+ - "git merge -Xtheirs" can be used to auto-merge as much as possible,
+ while discarding your own changes and taking merged version in
+ conflicted regions.
+
* "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar
for "git push origin :branch".
+ * "git push" learned "git push --set-upstream origin forker:forkee" that
+ lets you configure your "forker" branch to later pull from "forkee"
+ branch at "origin".
+
* "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the
merge base between A and B.
+ * "git rebase -i" learned new action "fixup", that squashes the change
+ but does not affect existing log message.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" also learned --autosquash option, that is useful
+ together with the new "fixup" action.
+
+ * "git rerere" learned "forget path" subcommand. Together with "git
+ checkout -m path" it will be useful when you recorded a wrong
+ resolution.
+
* Use of "git reset --merge" has become easier when resetting away a
conflicted mess left in the work tree.
+ * "git rerere" had rerere.autoupdate configuration but there was no way
+ to countermand it from the command line; --no-rerere-autoupdate option
+ given to "merge", "revert", etc. fixes this.
+
* "git status" learned "-s(hort)" output format.
(developers)
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.6-242-gf287c65
+O=v1.6.6.1-379-gd4556c4
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint