User visible changes
--------------------
-[[Note that none of these are not merged to 'master' as of this writing
-but they will be before 1.6.0 happens]]
-
With the default Makefile settings, most of the programs are now
installed outside your $PATH, except for "git", "gitk", "git-gui" and
some server side programs that need to be accessible for technical
Source changes needed for porting to MinGW environment are now all in the
main git.git codebase.
+By default, packfiles created with this version uses delta-base-offset
+encoding introduced in v1.4.4. Pack idx files are using version 2 that
+allows larger packs and added robustness thanks to its CRC checking,
+introduced in v1.5.2.
+
Updates since v1.5.6
--------------------
(usability, bells and whistles)
+* git-apply can handle a patch that touches the same path more than once
+ much better than before.
+
+* git-apply can be told not to trust the line counts recorded in the input
+ patch but recount, with the new --recount option.
+
* git-archive can be told to omit certain paths from its output using
export-ignore attributes.
+* git-clone can clone from a remote whose URL would be rewritten by
+ configuration stored in $HOME/.gitconfig now.
+
+* git-diff --check now checks leftover merge conflict markers.
+
+* When remote side used to have branch 'foo' and git-fetch finds that now
+ it has branch 'foo/bar', it refuses to lose the existing remote tracking
+ branch and its reflog. The error message has been improved to suggest
+ pruning the remote if the user wants to proceed and get the latest set
+ of branches from the remote, including such 'foo/bar'.
+
* fast-export learned to export and import marks file; this can be used to
interface with fast-import incrementally.
* Original SHA-1 value for "update-ref -d" is optional now.
+* git-send-mail can talk not just over SSL but over TLS now.
+
* You can tell "git status -u" to even more aggressively omit checking
untracked files with --untracked-files=no.
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.5.6.1-104-ga08b868
+O=v1.5.6.1-155-gaa0c1f2
echo O=$(git describe refs/heads/master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..refs/heads/master ^refs/heads/maint