* "git add -N path..." adds the named paths as an empty blob, so that
subsequent "git diff" will show a diff as if they are creation events.
+* "git add" gained a built-in synonym for people who want to say "stage
+ changes" instead of "add contents the the staging area" which amounts
+ to the same thing.
+
* "git apply" learned --include=paths option, similar to the existing
--exclude=paths option.
* "git bisect" is careful about a user mistake and suggests testing of
merge base first when good is not a strict ancestor of bad.
+* "git bisect skip" can take a range of commits.
+
* "git blame" re-encodes the commit metainfo to UTF-8 from i18n.commitEncoding
by default.
it (we still need to fix a similar nonsense when S is a submodule and F
is a path in it).
+* "git am" after stopping at a broken patch lost --whitespace, -C, -p and
+ --3way options given from the command line initially.
+
* "git diff --stdin" used to take two trees on a line and compared them,
but we dropped support for such a use case long time ago. This has
been resurrected.
* "git repack" used to grab objects out of packs marked with .keep
into a new pack (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
+* "git rm --cached" used to allow an empty blob that was added earlier to
+ be removed without --force, even when the file in the work tree has
+ since been modified.
+
* "git push --tags --all $there" failed with generic usage message without
telling saying these two options are incompatible.
large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
picked to maint).
+* "gitweb" did not mark non-ASCII characters imported from external HTML fragments
+ correctly.
+
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.0.4-854-gaaab7ea
+O=v1.6.1-rc1-55-gd8af75d
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint