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Updates since v1.6.0
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+When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we
+used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces
+output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the
+pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the
+processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now
+on.
+
(subsystems)
-* ...
+* gitk can call out to git-gui to view "git blame" output; git-gui in turn
+ can run gitk from its blame view.
(portability)
(performance)
-* ...
+* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
+ optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
+
+* Most of the test scripts (but not the ones that try to run servers)
+ can be run in parallel.
+
+* Bash completion of refnames in a repository with massive number of
+ refs has been optimized.
(usability, bells and whistles)
-* ...
+* When you mistype a command name, git helpfully suggests what it guesses
+ you might have meant to say. help.autocorrect configuration can be set
+ to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
+ guess.
-(internal)
+* "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 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 commit --author=$name" can look up author name from existing
+ commits.
+
+* "git count-objects" reports the on-disk footprint for packfiles and
+ their corresponding idx files.
+
+* "git daemon" learned --max-connections=<count> option.
+
+* "git diff" learned to mimick --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
+ configuration option.
+
+* "git diff" learned to put more sensible hunk headers for Python and
+ HTML contents.
+
+* "git diff" learned to vary the a/ vs b/ prefix depending on what are
+ being compared, controlled by diff.mnemonicprefix configuration.
+
+* "git for-each-ref" learned "refname:short" token that gives an
+ unambiguously abbreviated refname.
+
+* "git help" learned to use GIT_MAN_VIEWER environment variable before
+ using "man" program.
+* "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL.
+
+* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while
+ completing a thin pack.
+
+* "git log --check" and "git log --exit-code" passes their underlying diff
+ status with their exit status code.
+
+* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history;
+ "gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history.
+
+* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
+ names of tags that point at the commit.
+
+* "git merge --squash" and "git merge --no-ff" into an unborn branch are
+ noticed as user errors.
+
+* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
+ command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
+
+* "git reflog expire branch" can be used in place of "git reflog expire
+ refs/heads/branch".
+
+* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
+ out submodules.
+
+* "git submodule sync" subcommands allows you to update the origin URL
+ recorded in submodule directories from the toplevel .gitmodules file.
+
+(internal)
+
+* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
+ correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents
+ stored in a temporary file.
Fixes since v1.6.0
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All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.
+* "git add" and "git update-index" incorrectly allowed adding S/F when S
+ is a tracked symlink that points at a directory D that has a path F in
+ it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
+ is a path in it).
+
+* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
+ but we droppped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
+ been resurrected.
+
+* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
+
+* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
+ telling saying these two options are incompatible.
+
+* "git log --author/--committer" match used to potentially match the
+ timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
+ not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0
+O=v1.6.0.2-295-g34a5d35
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint