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Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt

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* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
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optimized out.
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* pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
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during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
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spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
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is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
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* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev=commit".
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* "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit".
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* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
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with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
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messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
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commits; now it doesn't.
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* @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
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1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
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commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
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* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
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* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
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* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
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* git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration
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variable.
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* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
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header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
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--add-header=<header> option of the command.
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* git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when
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told to send patches as attachments.
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* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
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* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
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* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
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* "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
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the named path; it now does.
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* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
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in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
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* "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
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deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
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individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
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"abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
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and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
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* "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
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a criss-cross merge situation.
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
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O=v1.6.2.2-484-g796b137
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint

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