By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
-introduced in v1.5.2.
+introduced in v1.5.2 and v1.4.4.5. If you want to keep your repositories
+backwards compatible past these versions, set repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
+to false or pack.indexVersion to 1, respectively.
GIT_CONFIG, which was only documented as affecting "git config", but
actually affected all git commands, now only affects "git config".
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
+* git-archive uses the zlib default compression level when creating
+ zip archive.
+
* With -v option, git-branch describes the remote tracking statistics
similar to the way git-checkout reports by how many commits your branch
is ahead/behind.
* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
+* git-cvsserver learned to respond to "cvs co -c".
+
* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
+* fast-import and fast-export learned to export and import gitlinks.
+
* git-rebase records the original tip of branch in ORIG_HEAD before it is
rewound.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6.3-436-g1f8dc67
+O=v1.5.6.4-432-g6796399
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint