(subsystems)
+ * "git fast-import" updates; adds "option" and "feature" to detect the
+ mismatch between fast-import and the frontends that produce the input
+ stream.
+
(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.
+
+ * Various commands given by the end user (e.g. diff.type.textconv,
+ and GIT_EDITOR) can be specified with command line arguments. E.g. it
+ is now possible to say "[diff "utf8doc"] textconv = nkf -w".
+
+ * "sparse checkout" feature allows only part of the work tree to be
+ checked out.
+
+ * 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).
+
+ * "git checkout A...B" is a way to detach HEAD at the merge base between
+ A and B.
+
* "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 fetch --all" can now be used in place of "git remote update".
+
+ * "git push" learned "git push origin --delete branch", a syntactic sugar
+ for "git push origin :branch".
+
+ * "git rebase --onto A...B" means the history is replayed on top of the
+ merge base between A and B.
+
+ * 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)
+
+ * The infrastructure to build foreign SCM interface has been updated.
+
Fixes since v1.6.6
------------------
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.6-101-gf012d27
+O=v1.6.6-263-ge33fd3c
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint