Foreign interface
- * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/) have been updated.
+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have
+ been updated; especially, the latter has been accelerated to help
+ Emacs folks, whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A handful of updates applied to gitk, including an addition of
+ "revert" action, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, making
+ colors configurable, and support for -G'pickaxe' search.
+
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
replayed during a "git rebase" session.