1- GIT v1.6.6 Release Notes
1+ Git v1.6.6 Release Notes
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44In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and checks
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ Updates since v1.6.5
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4141(subsystems)
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43+ * various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states, etc.
44+
4345(portability)
4446
4547(performance)
@@ -49,6 +51,17 @@ Updates since v1.6.5
4951 * The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects
5052 global option given to the "git" program.
5153
54+ * "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit.
55+
56+ * "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there
57+ is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to
58+ start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch.
59+
60+ * "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option.
61+
62+ * "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs
63+ instead of differences between the commit object names.
64+
5265 * "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the
5366 default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full".
5467
@@ -59,11 +72,23 @@ Updates since v1.6.5
5972
6073 * "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well.
6174
75+ * "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned:
76+
77+ . to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier.
78+ . to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier.
79+
80+ * "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail
81+ if the merge does not result in a fast-forward.
82+
83+ * "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge.
84+
6285 * "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
6386 starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to
6487 the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
6588 contents.
6689
90+ * "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets.
91+
6792 * Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
6893 author.
6994
@@ -76,33 +101,8 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5
76101All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this
77102release, unless otherwise noted.
78103
79- * "git apply" and "git diff" (including patch output from "git log -p")
80- now flags trailing blank lines as whitespace errors correctly (only
81- "apply --whitespace=fix" stripped them but "apply --whitespace=warn"
82- did not even warn).
83-
84- * Two whitespace error classes, 'blank-at-eof' and 'blank-at-eol', have
85- been introduced (settable by core.whitespace configuration variable and
86- whitespace attribute). The 'trailing-space' whitespace error class has
87- become a short-hand to cover both of these and there is no behaviour
88- change for existing set-ups.
89-
90- * "git cvsimport" did not work well when it is fed filenames from the
91- command line and is not started at the top of the work tree. We should
92- backport this by merging f6fdbb6 (cvsimport: fix relative argument
93- filenames, 2009-10-19).
94-
95- * The way gitweb escapes its CGI parameters were broken especially when
96- the parameter was a UTF-8 string. We may want to backport this to
97- 1.6.5.X series by merging 452e225 (gitweb: fix esc_param, 2009-10-13).
98-
99- * gitweb used to show 'patch' link for merge commits but the output from
100- it is not usable to feed "git am" with. We may want to backport this
101- to 1.6.5.X series by merging 1655c98 (gitweb: Do not show 'patch' link
102- for merge commits, 2009-10-09).
103-
104104---
105105exec >/var/tmp/1
106106echo O=$(git describe master)
107- O=v1.6.5.2-73-g9b12444
107+ O=v1.6.5.3-152-g122d0f6
108108git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint
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