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* various git-svn updates.
+* git-gui updates, including an update to Russian translation, and a
+ fix to an infinite loop when showing an empty diff.
+
+* gitk updates, including an update to Russian translation and improved Windows
+ support.
+
(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.
-* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
- messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
- commits; now it doesn't.
-
* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
* 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.
* 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.
knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
+* Support for building and testing a subset of git on a system without a
+ working perl has been improved.
+
+
Fixes since v1.6.2
------------------
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=v1.6.2.3-497-g54a4749
-echo O=$(git describe master)
-git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint