6969* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
7070 subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
7171
72+ * "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage
73+ changes" instead of "add contents the the staging area" which amounts
74+ to the same thing.
75+
7276* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing
7377 --exclude=paths option.
7478
7579* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
7680 merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
7781
82+ * "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits.
83+
7884* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding
7985 by default.
8086
@@ -238,6 +244,9 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
238244 it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
239245 is a path in it).
240246
247+ * "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and
248+ --3way options given from the command line initially.
249+
241250* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
242251 but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
243252 been resurrected.
@@ -252,6 +261,10 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
252261* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
253262 into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
254263
264+ * "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to
265+ be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has
266+ since been modified.
267+
255268* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
256269 telling saying these two options are incompatible.
257270
@@ -263,8 +276,11 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
263276 large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
264277 picked to maint).
265278
279+ * "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments
280+ correctly.
281+
266282--
267283exec >/var/tmp/1
268- O=v1.6.0.4-854-gaaab7ea
284+ O=v1.6.1-rc1-55-gd8af75d
269285echo O=$(git describe master)
270286git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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