* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation.
+* Updates to emacs bindings.
+
(portability)
* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on
* Sample pre-auto-gc script has OS X support.
+* Makefile has support for (ancient) FreeBSD 4.9.
+
(performance)
+* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute
+ necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which
+ potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in
+ environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS).
+
* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
to a non-zero value to accept the suggestion when git can uniquely
guess.
+* The packfile machinery hopefully is more robust when dealing with
+ corrupt packs if redundant objects involved in the corruption are
+ available elsewhere.
+
* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
* "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 blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding
+ by default.
+
* "git check-attr --stdin" can check attributes for multiple paths.
* "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
* "git diff" learned --dirstat-by-file to count changed files, not number
of lines, when summarizing the global picture.
+* "git diff" learned "textconv" filters --- a binary or hard-to-read
+ contents can be munged into human readable form and the difference
+ between the results of the conversion can be viewed (obviously this
+ cannot produce a patch that can be applied, so this is disabled in
+ format-patch among other things).
+
* "git diff" hunk header pattern for ObjC has been added.
+* "--cached" option to "git diff has an easier to remember synonym "--staged",
+ to ask "what is the difference between the given commit and the
+ contents staged in the index?"
+
* a "textconv" filter that makes binary files textual form for human
consumption can be specified as an attribute for paths; "git diff"
learnt to make use of it.
* "git log" learned --simplify-merges, a milder variant of --full-history;
"gitk --simplify-merges" is easier to view than with --full-history.
+* "git log" learned "--source" to show what ref each commit was reached
+ from.
+
+* "git log" also learned "--simplify-by-decoration" to show the
+ birds-eye-view of the topology of the history.
+
* "git log --pretty=format:" learned "%d" format element that inserts
names of tags that point at the commit.
* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
+* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or
+ "-q"uietly.
+
+* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes
+ configuration.
+
* "git rebase" honours pre-rebase hook; use --no-verify to bypass it.
* "git rebase -p" uses interactive rebase machinery now to preserve the merges.
* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed
to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?]
+* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and
+ maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to
+ generate patches for the given revision range.
+
* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
out submodules.
* "git svn branch" can create new branches on the other end.
+* "gitweb" can use more saner PATH_INFO based URL.
+
(internal)
* "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
* various callers of git-merge-recursive avoid forking it as an external
process.
+* Git class defined in "Git.pm" can be subclasses a bit more easily.
+
+* We used to link GNU regex library as a compatibility layer for some
+ platforms, but it turns out it is not necessary on most of them.
+
+* Some path handling routines used fixed number of buffers used alternately
+ but depending on the call depth, this arrangement led to hard to track
+ bugs. This issue is being addressed.
+
Fixes since v1.6.0
------------------
* "git filter-branch" failed to rewrite a tag name with slashes in it.
+* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
+ into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
+
* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
telling saying these two options are incompatible.
timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
+* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a
+ large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
+ picked to maint).
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0.3-574-gaebd173
+O=v1.6.0.4-854-gaaab7ea
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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