(subsystems)
+* various git-svn updates.
+
(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.
+
* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
testing.
* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
+* "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph
+ in colors.
+
* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
tell git not to apply it.
* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
+* git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
+ speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one.
+ Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from
+ the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads
+ attributes from the work tree).
+
* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
* You can give --date=<format> option to git-blame.
-* git-branch -r shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
+* "git-branch -r" shows HEAD symref that points at a remote branch in
interest of each tracked remote repository.
+* "git-branch -v -v" is a new way to get list of names for branches and the
+ "upstream" branch for them.
+
* git-config learned -e option to open an editor to edit the config file
directly.
* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
-* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
+* git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
+ maintained by David Aguilar.
+
+* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
format.attach.
* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
+* "git remote update --prune $remote" updates from the named remote and
+ then prunes stale tracking branches.
+
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
sending the messages out.
Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
v1.6.2.X series.
+* "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B
+ and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry
+ picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee).
+
* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
file that is being checked out.
-* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
- the named path; it now does.
-
* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
-* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
- deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
- individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
- "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
- and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
-
-* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
- a criss-cross merge situation.
-
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.2-484-g796b137
+O=v1.6.3-rc1-1-gea10b60
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint