Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4-rc3

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Hi Junio,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 01:16:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Updates since v1.6.3
> --------------------
> 
> [...]
> 
> (usability, bells and whistles)
> 
>  * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
>    is added to the index.
> 
>  * "git am" accepts StGIT series file as its input.
> 
>  * "git bisect skip" skips to a more randomly chosen place in the hope
>    to avoid testing a commit that is too close to a commit that is
>    already known to be untestable.
> 
>  * "git cvsexportcommit" learned -k option to stop CVS keywords expansion
> 
>  * "git grep" learned -p option to show the location of the match using the
>    same context hunk marker "git diff" uses.
> 
>  * https transport can optionally be told that the used client
>    certificate is password protected, in which case it asks the
>    password only once.
> 
>  * "git imap-send" is IPv6 aware.
> 
>  * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizontal lines
>    when able.
> 
>  * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
>    refs/* prefix.
> 
>  * "git push $name" honors remote.$name.pushurl if present before
>    using remote.$name.url.  In other words, the URL used for fetching
>    and pushing can be different.
> 
>  * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
>    have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
> 
>  * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
>    variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
> 
>  * "git show-branch" can color its output.
> 
>  * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
>    option to use local clone with references.
> 
>  * "git submodule update" learned --rebase option to update checked
>    out submodules by rebasing the local changes.
> 
>  * "gitweb" can optionally use gravatar to adorn author/committer names.
> 
I'm not really sure if it's worth to point out:

 * "git rev-parse" learned "--stop-at-non-option"

But on the other hand I sometimes want to find out the oldest release
supporting a certain feature.  Up to you to decide ...

> ---
> exec >/var/tmp/1
> echo O=$(git describe master)
> O=v1.6.4-rc2-31-g2ceb639
> git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
Is it intended that this occurs in the mail?  (Oh, a possible symlink
attack :-)

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                              | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                    | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |
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