| GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v1.6.1 |
| -------------------- |
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| (subsystems) |
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| * git-svn updates. |
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| * gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed |
| improvements. |
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| (portability) |
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| (performance) |
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| * pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded |
| version. |
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| (usability, bells and whistles) |
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| * automatic typo correction works on aliases as well |
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| * @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on. This is |
| accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere |
| a branch name is expected. E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}" |
| "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}". |
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| * "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk. |
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| * when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the |
| title of the offending patch. |
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| * "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options |
| to underlying "git apply". |
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| * "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty |
| repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote |
| repository. |
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| * "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}". |
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| * "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if |
| exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given. |
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| * "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to |
| the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation |
| configuration. |
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| * "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close |
| hunks together and show context between them. |
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| * The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words" |
| can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration. |
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| * "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm. |
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| * Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did |
| not work as expected. |
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| * "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits |
| that do not change the contents. |
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| * "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized. |
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| * "git log" and friends include HEAD to the set of starting points |
| when --all is given. This makes a difference when you are not on |
| any branch. |
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| * "git ls-tree" learned --full-tree option that shows the path in full |
| regardless of where in the work tree hierarchy the command was started. |
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| * "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting. |
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| * "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere |
| with --root option. |
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| * "git reset --merge" is a new mode that works similar to the way |
| "git checkout" switches branches, taking the local changes while |
| switching to another commit. |
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| (internal) |
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| Fixes since v1.6.1 |
| ------------------ |
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| All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this |
| release, unless otherwise noted. |
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| * "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to |
| the superproject. |
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| * git-bundle did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given from the |
| command line wanted to. |
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| * branch switching and merges had a silly bug that did not validate |
| the correct directory when making sure an existing subdirectory is |
| clean. |
| |
| -- |
| exec >/var/tmp/1 |
| O=v1.6.1.2-252-g8c95d3c |
| echo O=$(git describe master) |
| git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint |
