* The message from "git am -3" has been improved when conflict
resolution ended up making the patch a no-op.
+ * "git blame" applies the textconv filter to the contents it works
+ on, when available.
+
* "git checkout --orphan newbranch" is similar to "-b newbranch" but
prepares to create a root commit that is not connected to any existing
commit.
- * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. "cherry-pick
- A..B"); this does not have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has,
- though.
+ * "git cherry-pick" learned to pick a range of commits
+ (e.g. "cherry-pick A..B" and "cherry-pick --stdin"); this does not
+ have nicer sequencing control "rebase [-i]" has, though.
* "git cvsserver" can be told to use pserver; its password file can be
stored outside the repository.
* Various options to "git grep" (e.g. --count, --name-only) work better
with binary files.
+ * "git grep" learned "-Ovi" to open the files with hits in yoru editor.
+
* "git help -w" learned "chrome" and "chromium" browsers.
+ * "git log --decorate" shows commit decorations in various colours.
+
* "git log --follow <path>" follows across copies (it used to only follow
renames). This may make the processing more expensive.
the result to the commits that are on the ancestry chain between A and
B (i.e. commits that are not descendants of A are excluded).
+ * "git show -5" is equivalent to "git show --do-walk 5"; this is similar
+ to the update to make "git show master..next" walk the history,
+ introduced in 1.6.4.
+
* "git status [-s] --ignored" can be used to list ignored paths.
* "git status -s -b" shows the current branch in the output.
+ * "git status" learned "--ignore-submodules" option.
+
* Various "gitweb" enhancements and clean-ups, including syntax
highlighting, "plackup" support for instaweb, .fcgi suffix to run
it as FastCGI script, etc.
* "git diff" could show ambiguous abbreviation of blob object names on
its "index" line (3e5a188).
+ * "git rebase" did not faithfully reproduce a malformed author ident, that
+ is often seen in a repository converted from foreign SCMs (43c23251).
+
* "git reset --hard" started from a wrong directory and a working tree in
a nonstandard location is in use got confused (560fb6a1).
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.7.1-568-g2c177a1
+O=v1.7.2-rc0-60-g2927a50
echo O=$(git describe HEAD)
git shortlog --no-merges HEAD ^maint ^$O