@@ -35,12 +35,43 @@ Updates since v1.6.3
3535
3636(subsystems)
3737
38+ * gitweb Perl style clean-up.
39+
40+ * git-svn updates, including a new --authors-prog option to map author
41+ names by invoking an external program.
42+
43+ (portability)
44+
45+ * We feed iconv with "UTF-8" instead of "utf8"; the former is
46+ understood more widely.
47+
3848(performance)
3949
4050(usability, bells and whistles)
4151
52+ * "git add --edit" lets users edit the whole patch text to fine-tune what
53+ is added to the index.
54+
55+ * "git log --graph" draws graphs more compactly by using horizonal lines
56+ when able.
57+
58+ * "git log --decorate" shows shorter refnames by stripping well-known
59+ refs/* prefix.
60+
61+ * "git send-email" understands quoted aliases in .mailrc files (might
62+ have to be backported to 1.6.3.X).
63+
64+ * "git send-email" can fetch the sender address from the configuration
65+ variable "sendmail.from" (and "sendmail.<identity>.from").
66+
67+ * "git show-branch" can color its output.
68+
69+ * "add" and "update" subcommands to "git submodule" learned --reference
70+ option to use local clone with references.
71+
4272(developers)
4373
74+ * A major part of the "git bisect" wrapper has moved to C.
4475
4576Fixes since v1.6.3
4677------------------
@@ -51,9 +82,12 @@ release, unless otherwise noted.
5182Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
5283v1.6.3.X series.
5384
85+ * The way Git.pm sets up a Repository object was not friendly to callers
86+ that chdir around. It now internally records the repository location
87+ as an absolute path when autodetected.
5488
5589---
5690exec >/var/tmp/1
5791echo O=$(git describe master)
58- O=v1.6.3
92+ O=v1.6.3.1-168-g23807fa
5993git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint
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