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Update draft release notes to 1.6.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes-1.6.3.txt

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* many uses of lstat(2) in the codepath for "git checkout" have been
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optimized out.
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(usability, bells and whistles)
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* rsync:/path/to/repo can be used to run git over rsync for local
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repositories. It may not be useful in practice; meant primarily for
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testing.
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* (msysgit) progress output that is sent over the sideband protocol can
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be handled appropriately in Windows console.
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* "--pretty=<style>" option to the log family of commands can now be
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spelled as "--format=<style>". In addition, --format=%formatstring
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is a short-hand for --pretty=tformat:%formatstring.
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* git-format-patch can be told to produce deep or shallow message threads.
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* git-grep learned to highlight the found substrings in color.
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* git-imap-send learned to work around Thunderbird's inability to easily
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disable format=flowed with a new configuration, imap.preformattedHTML.
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* git-rebase can be told to report diffstat with the --stat option.
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* Output from git-remote command has been vastly improved.
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* git-send-email learned --confirm option to review the Cc: list before
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Here are fixes that this release has, but have not been backported to
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v1.6.2.X series.
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* "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches
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correctly (backport by cherry-picking 50fd699).
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* "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said
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it cannot find 'origin', which was hard to understand for new people.
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* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
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in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
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* "git-ls-files --deleted" did not work well with GIT_DIR&GIT_WORK_TREE
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(backport by cherry-picking 8ad3dae).
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* "git-read-tree A B C..." without -m option has been broken for a long time
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(backport by merging jc/maint-1.6.0-read-tree-overlay)
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* 'git-submodule add' did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the
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path it accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient
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(if needed, backport by merging db75ada).
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* git-gc spent excessive amount of time to decide if an object appears
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in a locally existing pack (if needed, backport by merging 69e020a).
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* git-send-email ignored --in-reply-to when --no-thread was given
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(backport by merging tr/maint-1.6.0-send-email-irt)
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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O=v1.6.2.1-135-g7d65c21
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O=v1.6.2.1-213-g7d4e3a7
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint

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