* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
+* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding
+ by default.
+
+* "git check-attr --stdin" can check attributes for multiple paths.
+
* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
* "git cherry-pick" can also utilize rerere for conflict resolution.
+* "git clone" learned to be verbose with -v
+
* "git commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing
commits.
* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option.
+* "git daemon" exports REMOTE_ADDR to record client address, so that
+ spawned programs can act differently on it.
+
+* "git describe --tags" favours closer lightweight tags than farther
+ annotated tags now.
+
* "git diff" learned to mimic --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
configuration option.
* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added.
+* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human
+ consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff"
+ learnt to make use of it.
+
* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
unambiguously abbreviated refname.
+* Auto-numbering of the subject lines is the default for "git
+ format-patch" now.
+
* "git grep" learned to accept -z similar to GNU grep.
* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
+* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes
+ configuration.
+
+* "git rebase" honours pre-rebase hook; use --no-verify to bypass it.
+
+* "git rebase -p" uses interactive rebase machinery now to preserve the merges.
+
* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire
refs/heads/branch".
+* "git remote show $remote" lists remote branches one-per-line now.
+
+* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed
+ to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?]
+
* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
out submodules.
* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end.
+* "gitweb" can use more saner PATH_INFO based URL.
+
(internal)
* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external
process.
+* Git class defined in "Git.pm" can be subclasses a bit more easily.
+
+* We used to link GNU regex library as a compatibility layer for some platforms,
+ but it turns out it is not necessary on most of them.
Fixes since v1.6.0
------------------
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0.2-553-g58e0fa5
+O=v1.6.0.3-610-g94dc4b8
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint