git/Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.2.txt

GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes
========================

Updates since v1.6.1
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(subsystems)

* git-svn updates.

* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed
  improvements.

(portability)

(performance)

* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded
  version.

(usability, bells and whistles)

* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well

* @{-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}".

* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk.

* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the
  title of the offending patch.

* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options
  to underlying "git apply".

* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning from an empty
  repository to set up configuration variables to refer to the remote
  repository.

* "git checkout -" is a shorthand for "git checkout @{-1}".

* "git cherry" defaults to whatever the current branch is tracking (if
  exists) when the <upstream> argument is not given.

* "git cvsserver" can be told not to add extra "via git-CVS emulator" to
  the commit log message it serves via gitcvs.commitmsgannotation
  configuration.

* "git diff" learned a new option --inter-hunk-context to coalesce close
  hunks together and show context between them.

* The definition of what constitutes a word for "git diff --color-words"
  can be customized via gitattributes, command line or a configuration.

* "git diff" learned --patience to run "patience diff" algorithm.

* Some combinations of -b/-w/--ignore-space-at-eol to "git diff" did
  not work as expected.

* "git filter-branch" learned --prune-empty option that discards commits
  that do not change the contents.

* "git grep -w" and "git grep" for fixed strings have been optimized.

* "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.

* "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.

* "git mergetool" learned -y(--no-prompt) option to disable prompting.

* "git rebase -i" can transplant a history down to root to elsewhere
  with --root option.

* "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.

(internal)


Fixes since v1.6.1
------------------

All of the fixes in v1.6.1.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.

* "git-add sub/file" when sub is a submodule incorrectly added the path to
  the superproject.

* git-bundle did not exclude annotated tags even when a range given from the
  command line wanted to.

* 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