@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
4747
4848(usability, bells and whistles)
4949
50+ * Boolean configuration variable yes/no can be written as on/off.
51+
5052* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
5153 repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
5254 testing.
@@ -63,6 +65,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
6365
6466* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
6567
68+ * "--graph" to the "git log" family can draw the commit ancestry graph
69+ in colors.
70+
6671* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
6772 with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
6873 tell git not to apply it.
@@ -75,8 +80,16 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
7580 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
7681 commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
7782
83+ * "git-add -p" now supports "q"uit action.
84+
7885* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
7986
87+ * git-archive takes attributes from the tree being archived; strictly
88+ speaking, this is an incompatible behaviour change, but is a good one.
89+ Use --worktree-attributes option to allow it to read attributes from
90+ the work tree as before (deprecated git-tar tree command always reads
91+ attributes from the work tree).
92+
8093* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
8194 is unknown, but also shows the estimated number of remaining rounds.
8295
@@ -93,6 +106,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
93106
94107* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
95108
109+ * git-difftool is now part of the officially supported command, primarily
110+ maintained by David Aguilar.
111+
96112* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
97113
98114* git-for-each-ref learned a new "upstream" token.
@@ -156,26 +172,18 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
156172Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
157173v1.6.2.X series.
158174
175+ * "git-apply" rejected a patch that swaps two files (i.e. renames A to B
176+ and B to A at the same time). May need to be backported by cherry
177+ picking d8c81df and then 7fac0ee).
178+
159179* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
160180 file that is being checked out.
161181
162- * "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
163- the named path; it now does.
164-
165182* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
166183 in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
167184
168- * "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
169- deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
170- individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
171- "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
172- and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
173-
174- * "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
175- a criss-cross merge situation.
176-
177185---
178186exec >/var/tmp/1
179- O=v1.6.2.3-497-g54a4749
187+ O=v1.6.3-rc0-74-g9824a38
180188echo O=$(git describe master)
181189git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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