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Git v1.6.6-rc0
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Nov 23, 2009
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* various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states, etc.

* git-svn updates.

* "git fetch" over http learned a new mode that is different from the
traditional "dumb commit walker".

(portability)

* imap-send can be built on mingw port.

(performance)

* "git diff -B" has smaller memory footprint.

(usability, bells and whistles)

* The object replace mechanism can be bypassed with --no-replace-objects
global option given to the "git" program.

* In configuration files, a few variables that name paths can begin with ~/
and ~username/ and they are expanded as expected.

* "git subcmd -h" now shows short usage help for many more subcommands.

* "git bisect reset" can reset to an arbitrary commit.

* "git checkout frotz" when there is no local branch "frotz" but there
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* "git fsck" by default checks the packfiles (i.e. "--full" is the
default); you can turn it off with "git fsck --no-full".

* "git grep" can use -F (fixed strings) and -i (ignore case) together.

* import-tars contributed fast-import frontend learned more types of
compressed tarballs.

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. to wrap text with the "%w()" specifier.
. to show reflog information with "%g[sdD]" specifier.

* "git notes" command to annotate existing commits.

* "git merge" (and "git pull") learned --ff-only option to make it fail
if the merge does not result in a fast-forward.

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the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
contents.

* In "git submodule add <repository> <path>", <path> is now optional and
inferred from <repository> the same way "git clone <repository>" does.

* "git svn" learned to read SVN 1.5+ and SVK merge tickets.

* Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
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---
exec >/var/tmp/1
echo O=$(git describe master)
O=v1.6.5.3-152-g122d0f6
O=v1.6.5.3-337-gf341feb
git shortlog --no-merges $O..master --not maint

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