-GIT v1.6.6 Release Notes
+Git v1.6.6 Release Notes
========================
In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and checks
(subsystems)
+ * various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states, etc.
+
(portability)
(performance)
(usability, bells and whistles)
+ * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects
+ global option given to the "git" program.
+
+ * "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit.
+
+ * "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there
+ is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to
+ start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch.
+
+ * "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option.
+
+ * "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs
+ instead of differences between the commit object names.
+
* "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the
default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full".
+ * import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of
+ compressed tarballs.
+
+ * "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2.
+
* "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well.
+ * "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned:
+
+ . to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier.
+ . to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier.
+
+ * "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail
+ if the merge does not result in a fast-forward.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
+ starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to
+ the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
+ contents.
+
+ * "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets.
+
+ * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
+ author.
+
+
(developers)
Fixes since v1.6.5
All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
- * "git apply" and "git diff" (including patch output from "git log -p")
- now flags trailing blank lines as whitespace errors correctly (only
- "apply --whitespace=fix" stripped them but "apply --whitespace=warn"
- did not even warn).
-
- * Two whitespace error classes, 'blank-at-eof' and 'blank-at-eol', have
- been introduced (settable by core.whitespace configuration variable and
- whitespace attribute). The 'trailing-space' whitespace error class has
- become a short-hand to cover both of these and there is no behaviour
- change for existing set-ups.
+---
+exec >/var/tmp/1
+echo O=$(git describe master)
+O=v1.6.5.3-152-g122d0f6
+git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint