with the 'edit' action in git-add -i/-p, you can abort the editor to
tell git not to apply it.
+* The number of commits shown in "you are ahead/behind your upstream"
+ messages given by "git checkout" and "git status" used to count merge
+ commits; now it doesn't.
+
* git-archive learned --output=<file> option.
* git-bisect shows not just the number of remaining commits whose goodness
* git-clone runs post-checkout hook when run without --no-checkout.
+* git-fast-export choked when seeing a tag that does not point at commit.
+
* git-format-patch can be told to use attachment with a new configuration,
format.attach.
* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
+* git-format-patch learned format.headers configuration to add extra
+ header fields to the output. This behaviour is similar to the existing
+ --add-header=<header> option of the command.
+
* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
+* git-repack (invoked from git-gc) did not work as nicely as it should in
+ a repository that borrows objects from neighbours via alternates
+ mechanism especially when some packs are marked with the ".keep" flag
+ to prevent them from being repacked.
+
* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
sending the messages out.
* Building the manpages with docbook-xsl between 1.69.1 and 1.71.1 now
requires setting DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP to work around a docbook-xsl bug.
This workaround used to be enabled by default, but causes problems
- with newer versions of docbook-xsl.
+ with newer versions of docbook-xsl. In addition, there are a few more
+ knobs you can tweak to work around issues with various versions of the
+ docbook-xsl package. See comments in Documentation/Makefile for details.
Fixes since v1.6.2
------------------
---
exec >/var/tmp/1
-O=v1.6.2.1-399-gaa72a14
+O=v1.6.2.2-403-g8130949
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint