* various git-svn updates.
+* git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a
+ fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff.
+
+* gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows
+ support.
+
(performance)
* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
optimized out.
-* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
- during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.
-
(usability, bells and whistles)
* Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off.
with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
tell git not to apply it.
-* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
- messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
- commits; now it doesn't.
-
* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
-* "git-add -p" now supports "q"uit action.
-
* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
maintained by David Aguilar.
-* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
-
* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
+* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a
+ working perl has been improved.
+
+
Fixes since v1.6.2
------------------
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.3-rc0-74-g9824a38
+O=v1.6.3-rc2
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint