@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
4040* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
4141 optimized out.
4242
43+ * pruning reflog entries that are unreachable from the tip of the ref
44+ during "git reflog prune" (hence "git gc") was very inefficient.
45+
4346(usability, bells and whistles)
4447
4548* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
5659 spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
5760 is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
5861
59- * "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev= commit".
62+ * "--oneline" is a synonym for "--pretty=oneline --abbrev- commit".
6063
6164* If you realize that you botched the patch when you are editing hunks
6265 with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
@@ -66,6 +69,10 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
6669 messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
6770 commits; now it doesn't.
6871
72+ * @{-1} is a new way to refer to the last branch you were on introduced in
73+ 1.6.2, but the initial implementation did not teach this to a few
74+ commands. Now the syntax works with "branch -m @{-1} newname".
75+
6976* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
7077
7178* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
@@ -88,10 +95,16 @@ Updates since v1.6.2
8895
8996* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
9097
98+ * git-format-patch can be told to always add sign-off with a configuration
99+ variable.
100+
91101* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
92102 header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
93103 --add-header=<header> option of the command.
94104
105+ * git-format-patch gives human readable names to the attached files, when
106+ told to send patches as attachments.
107+
95108* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
96109
97110* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
@@ -136,11 +149,23 @@ v1.6.2.X series.
136149* The initial checkout did not read the attributes from the .gitattribute
137150 file that is being checked out.
138151
152+ * "git-checkout <tree-ish> <submodule>" did not update the index entry at
153+ the named path; it now does.
154+
139155* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
140156 in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
141157
158+ * "git-ls-tree" and "git-diff-tree" used a pathspec correctly when
159+ deciding to descend into a subdirectory but they did not match the
160+ individual paths correctly. This caused pathspecs "abc/d ab" to match
161+ "abc/0" ("abc/d" made them decide to descend into the directory "abc/",
162+ and then "ab" incorrectly matched "abc/0" when it shouldn't).
163+
164+ * "git-merge-recursive" was broken when a submodule entry was involved in
165+ a criss-cross merge situation.
166+
142167---
143168exec >/var/tmp/1
144- O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
169+ O=v1.6.2.2-484-g796b137
145170echo O=$(git describe master)
146171git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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