* more improvements on mingw port.
+ * mingw will also give FRSX as the default value for the LESS
+ environment variable when the user does not have one.
+
(performance)
* On major platforms, the system can be compiled to use with Linus's
* Unnecessary inefficiency in deepening of a shallow repository has
been removed.
+ * The "git" main binary used to link with libcurl, which then dragged
+ in a large number of external libraries. When using basic plumbing
+ commands in scripts, this unnecessarily slowed things down. We now
+ implement http/https/ftp transfer as a separate executable as we
+ used to.
+
+ * "git clone" run locally hardlinks or copies the files in .git/ to
+ newly created repository. It used to give new mtime to copied files,
+ but this delayed garbage collection to trigger unnecessarily in the
+ cloned repository. We now preserve mtime for these files to avoid
+ this issue.
+
(usability, bells and whistles)
* Human writable date format to various options, e.g. --since=yesterday,
master@{2000.09.17}, are taught to infer some omitted input properly.
+ * A few programs gave verbose "advice" messages to help uninitiated
+ people when issuing error messages. An infrastructure to allow
+ users to squelch them has been introduced, and a few such messages
+ can be silenced now.
+
* refs/replace/ hierarchy is designed to be usable as a replacement
of the "grafts" mechanism, with the added advantage that it can be
transferred across repositories.
reordering commits and trees without touching the contents of
blobs.
+ * "git fast-import" has a pair of new front-end in contrib/ area.
+
* "git init" learned to mkdir/chdir into a directory when given an
extra argument (i.e. "git init this").
* "git log --decorate" can optionally be told with --decorate=full to
give the reference name in full.
+ * "git merge" issued an unnecessarily scary message when it detected
+ that the merge may have to touch the path that the user has local
+ uncommitted changes to. The message has been reworded to make it
+ clear that the command aborted, without doing any harm.
+
* "git push" can be told to be --quiet.
+ * "git push" pays attention to url.$base.pushInsteadOf and uses a URL
+ that is derived from the URL used for fetching.
+
* informational output from "git reset" that lists the locally modified
paths is made consistent with that of "git checkout $another_branch".
--
exec >/var/tmp/1
O=v1.6.4.2-298-gdf01e7c
+O=v1.6.5-rc0-49-g5f2b1e6
echo O=$(git describe master)
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint