@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning. You can choose what
2222should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
2323receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.
2424
25- In a future release, the default of "git push" without further
26- arguments might be changed. Currently, it will push all matching
27- refspecs to the current remote. A configuration variable push.default
28- has been introduced to select the default behaviour. To ease the
29- transition, a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a
30- git push without arguments is attempted.
25+ When the user does not tell "git push" what to push, it has always
26+ pushed matching refs. For some people it is unexpected, and a new
27+ configuration variable push.default has been introduced to allow
28+ changing a different default behaviour. To advertise the new feature,
29+ a big warning is issued if this is not configured and a git push without
30+ arguments is attempted.
3131
3232
3333Updates since v1.6.2
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
4646 repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
4747 testing.
4848
49+ * http transport learned to prompt and use password when fetching from or
50+ pushing to http://user@host.xz/ URL.
51+
4952* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
5053 be handled appropriately in Windows console.
5154
@@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
99102
100103* Test scripts can be run under valgrind.
101104
105+ * Test scripts can be run with installed git.
106+
102107* Makefile learned 'coverage' option to run the test suites with
103108 coverage tracking enabled.
104109
@@ -111,11 +116,20 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
111116Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
112117v1.6.2.X series.
113118
119+ * "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given
120+ on the command line correctly (jc/maint-1.6.0-blame-s).
121+
122+ * The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
123+ file that is being checked out.
124+
125+ * git-diff feeds files in work-tree representation to external diff and
126+ textconv (js/maint-diff-temp-smudge).
127+
114128* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
115129 in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
116130
117131---
118132exec >/var/tmp/1
119- O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
133+ O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
120134echo O=$(git describe master)
121135git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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