Git v1.6.5.4 Release Notes

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Fixes since v1.6.5.3

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* "git help" (without argument) used to check if you are in a directory

under git control. There was no breakage in behaviour per-se, but this

was unnecessary.

* "git prune-packed" gave progress output even when its standard error is

not connected to a terminal; this caused cron jobs that run it to

produce crufts.

* "git pack-objects --all-progress" is an option to ask progress output

from write-object phase _if_ progress output were to be produced, and

shouldn't have forced the progress output.

* "git apply -p<n> --directory=<elsewhere>" did not work well for a

non-default value of n.

* "git merge foo HEAD" was misparsed as an old-style invocation of the

command and produced a confusing error message. As it does not specify

any other branch to merge, it shouldn't be mistaken as such. We will

remove the old style "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>..." syntax in

future versions, but not in this release,

* "git merge -m <message> <branch>..." added the standard merge message

on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overrided the

standard one.

Other minor documentation updates are included.