Updates since v1.5.3
--------------------
+ * Comes with much improved gitk.
+
+ * "progress display" from many commands are a lot nicer to the
+ eye. Transfer commands show throughput data.
+
+ * git-reset is now built-in and its output can be squelched with -q.
+
+ * git-send-email can optionally talk over ssmtp and use SMTP-AUTH.
+
+ * git-rebase learned --whitespace option.
+
+ * git-remote knows --mirror mode.
+
+ * git-merge can call the "post-merge" hook.
+
+ * git-pack-objects can optionally run deltification with multiple threads.
+
+ * git-archive can optionally substitute keywords in files marked with
+ export-subst attribute.
+
+ * git-for-each-ref learned %(xxxdate:<dateformat>) syntax to
+ show the various date fields in different formats.
+
+ * git-gc --auto is a low-impact way to automatically run a
+ variant of git-repack that does not lose unreferenced objects
+ (read: safer than the usual one) after the user accumulates
+ too many loose objects.
+
+ * You need to explicitly set clean.requireForce to "false" to allow
+ git-clean without -f to do any damage (lack of the configuration
+ variable used to mean "do not require", but we now use the safer
+ default).
+
+ * git-push has been rewritten in C.
+
+ * git-push learned --dry-run option to show what would happen
+ if a push is run.
+
+ * git-remote learned "rm" subcommand.
+
+ * git-rebase --interactive mode can now work on detached HEAD.
+
+ * git-cvsserver can be run via git-shell.
+
+ * git-am and git-rebase are far less verbose.
+
+ * git-pull learned to pass --[no-]ff option to underlying git-merge.
+
+ * Various Perforce importer updates.
+
+ * git-lost-found was deprecated in favor of git-fsck's --lost-found
+ option.
+
+ * "git log" learned --early-output option to help interactive
+ GUI implementations.
+
+ * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
+
+ * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
+
+ * git-format-patch learned "format.numbered" configuration variable
+ to automatically turn --numbered option on when more than one
+ commits are formatted.
+
+ * git-ls-files learned "--exclude-standard" to use the canned
+ set of exclude files.
+
+ * git-rebase now detaches head during its operation, so after a
+ successful "git rebase" operation, the reflog entry branch@{1}
+ for the current branch points at the commit before the rebase
+ was started.
+
+ * "git-tag -a -f existing" begins the editor session using the
+ existing annotation message.
+
+ * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -w option to specify and switch
+ to the CVS working directory.
+
+ * "git checkout" from a subdirectory learned to use "../path"
+ to allow checking out a path outside the current directory
+ without cd'ing up.
+
+ * Output processing for '--pretty=format:<user format>' has
+ been optimized.
+
+ * Rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
+ has been greatly optimized.
+
+ * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
+
+ * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
+
+ - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
+ brought from the msysgit effort.
+
+ - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
+
+ - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
Fixes since v1.5.3
All of the fixes in v1.5.3 maintenance series are included in
this release, unless otherwise noted.
+ * git-svn talking with the SVN over http will correctly quote branch
+ and project names.
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects A..B" choked when the lower boundary
+ of the range involved a subproject. This fix is also queued
+ for 'maint' (but not in there yet).
+
+--
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+O=v1.5.3.6-727-g5d3d1ca
+echo O=`git describe refs/heads/master`
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint