1 GIT v1.6.1 Release Notes
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7 When some commands (e.g. "git log", "git diff") spawn pager internally, we
8 used to make the pager the parent process of the git command that produces
9 output. This meant that the exit status of the whole thing comes from the
10 pager, not the underlying git command. We swapped the order of the
11 processes around and you will see the exit code from the command from now
28 * The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
29 optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
31 (usability, bells and whistles)
33 * "git checkout --track origin/hack" used to be a syntax error. It now
34 DWIMs to create a corresponding local branch "hack", i.e. acts as if you
35 said "git checkout --track -b hack origin/hack".
37 * "git diff" learned to mimick --suppress-blank-empty from GNU diff via a
40 * "git imap-send" can optionally talk SSL.
44 * "git hash-object" learned to lie about the path being hashed, so that
45 correct gitattributes processing can be done while hashing contents
46 stored in a temporary file.
51 All of the fixes in v1.6.0.X maintenance series are included in this
52 release, unless otherwise noted.
57 echo O=$(git describe master)
58 git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint