Git 1.6.6Edit

From the official announcement posted to the Git mailing list:

The latest feature release Git 1.6.6 is available at the usual
places:

 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

 git-1.6.6.tar.{gz,bz2}			(source tarball)
 git-htmldocs-1.6.6.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)
 git-manpages-1.6.6.tar.{gz,bz2}		(preformatted docs)

The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

 RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.6-1.fc11.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

Git v1.6.6 Release Notes
========================

Notes on behaviour change
-------------------------

* In this release, "git fsck" defaults to "git fsck --full" and
  checks packfiles, and because of this it will take much longer to
  complete than before.  If you prefer a quicker check only on loose
  objects (the old default), you can say "git fsck --no-full".  This
  has been supported by 1.5.4 and newer versions of git, so it is
  safe to write it in your script even if you use slightly older git
  on some of your machines.

Preparing yourselves for compatibility issues in 1.7.0
------------------------------------------------------

In git 1.7.0, which is planned to be the release after 1.6.6, there will
be a handful of behaviour changes that will break backward compatibility.

These changes were discussed long time ago and existing behaviours have
been identified as more problematic to the userbase than keeping them for
the sake of backward compatibility.

When necessary, a transition strategy for existing users has been designed
not to force them running around setting configuration variables and
updating their scripts in order to either keep the traditional behaviour
or adjust to the new behaviour, on the day their sysadmin decides to install
the new version of git.  When we switched from "git-foo" to "git foo" in
1.6.0, even though the change had been advertised and the transition
guide had been provided for a very long time, the users procrastinated
during the entire transtion period, and ended up panicking on the day
their sysadmins updated their git installation.  We are trying to avoid
repeating that unpleasantness in the 1.7.0 release.

For changes decided to be in 1.7.0, commands that will be affected
have been much louder to strongly discourage such procrastination, and
they continue to be in this release.  If you have been using recent
versions of git, you would have seen warnings issued when you used
features whose behaviour will change, with a clear instruction on how
to keep the existing behaviour if you want to.  You hopefully are
already well prepared.

Of course, we have also been giving "this and that will change in
1.7.0; prepare yourselves" warnings in the release notes and
announcement messages for the past few releases.  Let's see how well
users will fare this time.

* "git push" into a branch that is currently checked out (i.e. pointed by
  HEAD in a repository that is not bare) will be refused by default.

  Similarly, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch $killed
  in a remote repository $there, when $killed branch is the current
  branch pointed at by its HEAD, will be refused by default.

  Setting the configuration variables receive.denyCurrentBranch and
  receive.denyDeleteCurrent to 'ignore' in the receiving repository
  can be used to override these safety features.  Versions of git
  since 1.6.2 have issued a loud warning when you tried to do these
  operations without setting the configuration, so repositories of
  people who still need to be able to perform such a push should
  already have been future proofed.

  Please refer to:

  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007

  for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
  transition process that already took place so far.

* "git send-email" will not make deep threads by default when sending a
  patch series with more than two messages.  All messages will be sent
  as a reply to the first message, i.e. cover letter.  Git 1.6.6 (this
  release) will issue a warning about the upcoming default change, when
  it uses the traditional "deep threading" behaviour as the built-in
  default.  To squelch the warning but still use the "deep threading"
  behaviour, give --chain-reply-to option or set sendemail.chainreplyto
  to true.

  It has been possible to configure send-email to send "shallow thread"
  by setting sendemail.chainreplyto configuration variable to false.
  The only thing 1.7.0 release will do is to change the default when
  you haven't configured that variable.

* "git status" will not be "git commit --dry-run".  This change does not
  affect you if you run the command without pathspec.

  Nobody sane found the current behaviour of "git status Makefile" useful
  nor meaningful, and it confused users.  "git commit --dry-run" has been
  provided as a way to get the current behaviour of this command since
  1.6.5.

* "git diff" traditionally treated various "ignore whitespace" options
  only as a way to filter the patch output.  "git diff --exit-code -b"
  exited with non-zero status even if all changes were about changing the
  ammount of whitespace and nothing else.  and "git diff -b" showed the
  "diff --git" header line for such a change without patch text.

  In 1.7.0, the "ignore whitespaces" will affect the semantics of the
  diff operation itself.  A change that does not affect anything but
  whitespaces will be reported with zero exit status when run with
  --exit-code, and there will not be "diff --git" header for such a
  change.


Updates since v1.6.5
--------------------

(subsystems)

* various gitk updates including use of themed widgets under Tk 8.5,
  Japanese translation, a fix to a bug when running "gui blame" from
  a subdirectory, etc.

* various git-gui updates including new translations, wm states fixes,
  Tk bug workaround after quitting, improved heuristics to trigger gc,
  etc.

* various 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
  is only one remote tracking branch "frotz" is taken as a request to
  start the named branch at the corresponding remote tracking branch.

* "git commit -c/-C/--amend" can be told with a new "--reset-author" option
  to ignore authorship information in the commit it is taking the message
  from.

* "git describe" can be told to add "-dirty" suffix with "--dirty" option.

* "git diff" learned --submodule option to show a list of one-line logs
  instead of differences between the commit object names.

* "git diff" learned to honor diff.color.func configuration to paint
  function name hint printed on the hunk header "@@ -j,k +l,m @@" line
  in the specified color.

* "git fetch" learned --all and --multiple options, to run fetch from
  many repositories, and --prune option to remove remote tracking
  branches that went stale.  These make "git remote update" and "git
  remote prune" less necessary (there is no plan to remove "remote
  update" nor "remote prune", though).

* "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.

* "git instaweb" knows how to talk with mod_cgid to apache2.

* "git log --decorate" shows the location of HEAD as well.

* "git log" and "git rev-list" learned to take revs and pathspecs from
  the standard input with the new "--stdin" option.

* "--pretty=format" option to "log" family of commands learned:

  . 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.

* "git mergetool" learned to use p4merge.

* "git rebase -i" learned "reword" that acts like "edit" but immediately
  starts an editor to tweak the log message without returning control to
  the shell, which is done by "edit" to give an opportunity to tweak the
  contents.

* "git send-email" can be told with "--envelope-sender=auto" to use the
  same address as "From:" address as the envelope sender address.

* "git send-email" will issue a warning when it defaults to the
  --chain-reply-to behaviour without being told by the user and
  instructs to prepare for the change of the default in 1.7.0 release.

* 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.

* "git svn" learned to recreate empty directories tracked only by SVN.

* "gitweb" can optionally render its "blame" output incrementally (this
  requires JavaScript on the client side).

* Author names shown in gitweb output are links to search commits by the
  author.

Fixes since v1.6.5
------------------

All of the fixes in v1.6.5.X maintenance series are included in this
release, unless otherwise noted.


----------------------------------------------------------------

Changes since v1.6.5 are as follows:

Alex Riesen (1):
     git-gui: Update russian translation

Alex Vandiver (3):
     git-svn: sort svk merge tickets to account for minimal parents
     git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile to an absolute path when cloning
     git-svn: set svn.authorsfile earlier when cloning

Alexander Gavrilov (1):
     git-gui: Increase blame viewer usability on MacOS.

Alexey Borzenkov (1):
     git-gui: store wm state and fix wm geometry

Anders Kaseorg (1):
     bisect reset: Allow resetting to any commit, not just a branch

Andreas Schwab (1):
     Work around option parsing bug in the busybox tar implementation

Andrew Myrick (1):
     git-svn: Remove obsolete MAXPARENT check

Avery Pennarun (1):
     builtin-merge.c: call exclude_cmds() correctly.

Ben Walton (2):
     configure: add macro to set arbitrary make variables
     configure: add settings for gitconfig, editor and pager

Benjamin Kramer (1):
     Explicitly truncate bswap operand to uint32_t

Bernt Hansen (1):
     gitk: Skip translation of "wrong Tcl version" message

Bert Wesarg (2):
     Give the hunk comment its own color
     get_ref_states: strdup entries and free util in stale list

Björn Gustavsson (24):
     Teach 'rebase -i' the command "reword"
     git-clone.txt: Fix grammar and formatting
     bash: complete more options for 'git rebase'
     Teach 'git merge' and 'git pull' the option --ff-only
     Teach the --all option to 'git fetch'
     Teach the --multiple option to 'git fetch'
     Add the configuration option skipFetchAll
     Add missing test for 'git remote update --prune'
     Re-implement 'git remote update' using 'git fetch'
     format-patch: Always generate a patch
     format-patch documentation: Remove diff options that are not useful
     format-patch documentation: Fix formatting
     format-patch: Add "--no-stat" as a synonym for "-p"
     bash: add the merge option --ff-only
     Clarify and correct -z
     apply: apply works outside a repository
     apply: Format all options using back-quotes
     apply: Use the term "working tree" consistently
     Fix truncated usage messages
     User Manual: Write "Git" instead of "GIT"
     Fix over-simplified documentation for 'git log -z'
     gitworkflows: Consistently back-quote git commands
     bash: Support new 'git fetch' options
     rebase -i: abort cleanly if the editor fails to launch

Björn Steinbrink (2):
     clone: Supply the right commit hash to post-checkout when -b is used
     pre-commit.sample: Diff against the empty tree when HEAD is invalid

Brandon Casey (2):
     t4201: use ISO8859-1 rather than ISO-8859-1
     t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-'

Brian Collins (1):
     grep: Allow case insensitive search of fixed-strings

Brian Gernhardt (1):
     t/gitweb-lib: Split HTTP response with non-GNU sed

Carlos R. Mafra (1):
     Makefile: clean block-sha1/ directory instead of mozilla-sha1/

Christian Couder (7):
     git: add --no-replace-objects option to disable replacing
     Documentation: add "Fighting regressions with git bisect" article
     replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable
     Documentation: fix typos and spelling in replace documentation
     Documentation: talk a little bit about GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS
     bisect: simplify calling visualizer using '--bisect' option
     Documentation: update descriptions of revision options related to '--bisect'

Clemens Buchacher (4):
     modernize fetch/merge/pull examples
     remote-helpers: return successfully if everything up-to-date
     set httpd port before sourcing lib-httpd
     git-gui: search 4 directories to improve statistic of gc hint

Dan Zwell (1):
     git-gui: Limit display to a maximum number of files

Daniel Barkalow (2):
     Require a struct remote in transport_get()
     Allow curl helper to work without a local repository

David Aguilar (2):
     submodule.c: Squelch a "use before assignment" warning
     help: Do not unnecessarily look for a repository

David Brown (1):
     commit: More generous accepting of RFC-2822 footer lines.

David Kågedal (1):
     git-blame.el: Change how blame information is shown.

David Reiss (1):
     Prevent git blame from segfaulting on a missing author name

David Soria Parra (1):
     Documentation: Document --branch option in git clone synopsis

Dmitry V. Levin (1):
     Makefile: add compat/bswap.h to LIB_H

Eric Wong (13):
     git svn: fix fetch where glob is on the top-level URL
     git svn: read global+system config for clone+init
     git svn: add authorsfile test case for ~/.gitconfig
     git svn: attempt to create empty dirs on clone+rebase
     git svn: always reuse existing remotes on fetch
     git svn: strip leading path when making empty dirs
     git svn: log removals of empty directories
     git svn: make empty directory creation gc-aware
     t9146: use 'svn_cmd' wrapper
     git svn: fix --revision when fetching deleted paths
     update release notes for git svn in 1.6.6
     git svn: lookup new parents correctly from svn:mergeinfo
     git svn: branch/tag commands detect username in URLs

Erick Mattos (1):
     commit -c/-C/--amend: reset timestamp and authorship to committer with --reset-author

Erik Faye-Lund (6):
     imap-send: use separate read and write fds
     imap-send: use run-command API for tunneling
     imap-send: fix compilation-error on Windows
     imap-send: build imap-send on Windows
     mingw: wrap SSL_set_(w|r)fd to call _get_osfhandle
     mingw: enable OpenSSL

Felipe Contreras (5):
     diff.c: stylefix
     Use 'fast-forward' all over the place
     format-patch: fix parsing of "--" on the command line
     format-patch: add test for parsing of "--"
     send-email: automatic envelope sender

Gerrit Pape (1):
     help -i: properly error out if no info viewer can be found

Gisle Aas (2):
     More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'
     Fix documentation grammar typo

Giuseppe Bilotta (1):
     gitweb: fix esc_param

Greg Price (2):
     Documentation: undocument gc'd function graph_release()
     git svn: Don't create empty directories whose parents were deleted

Guillermo S. Romero (1):
     gitk: Add configuration for UI colour scheme

Heiko Voigt (2):
     git-gui: remove warning when deleting correctly merged remote branch
     git gui: make current branch default in "remote delete branch" merge check

Horst H. von Brand (1):
     git-pull.sh: Fix call to git-merge for new command format

Ingmar Vanhassel (1):
     import-tars: Add support for tarballs compressed with lzma, xz

Jakub Narebski (16):
     gitweb: Add optional "time to generate page" info in footer
     gitweb: Incremental blame (using JavaScript)
     gitweb: Colorize 'blame_incremental' view during processing
     gitweb: Create links leading to 'blame_incremental' using JavaScript
     gitweb: Minify gitweb.js if JSMIN is defined
     gitweb: Add 'show-sizes' feature to show blob sizes in tree view
     gitweb: Do not show 'patch' link for merge commits
     t/gitweb-lib.sh: Split gitweb output into headers and body
     gitweb: Document current snapshot rules via new tests
     gitweb: Refactor 'log' action generation, adding git_log_body()
     gitweb: Refactor common parts of 'log' and 'shortlog' views
     gitweb: Make 'history' view (re)use git_log_generic()
     gitweb.js: Harden setting blamed commit info in incremental blame
     gitweb: Make linking to actions requiring JavaScript a feature
     gitweb: Add link to other blame implementation in blame views
     gitweb: Describe (possible) gitweb.js minification in gitweb/README

Jan Krüger (2):
     rebase -i: more graceful handling of invalid commands
     pull: clarify advice for the unconfigured error case

Jari Aalto (3):
     Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
     Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files
     Documentation/merge-options.txt: order options in alphabetical groups

Jay Soffian (4):
     remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads()
     teach warn_dangling_symref to take a FILE argument
     builtin-fetch: add --prune option
     builtin-fetch: add --dry-run option

Jean Privat (1):
     Teach "git describe" --dirty option

Jeff King (18):
     ls-files: excludes should not impact tracked files
     document push's new quiet option
     cvsimport: fix relative argument filenames
     imap-send: remove useless uid code
     push: always load default config
     gitignore: root most patterns at the top-level directory
     add-interactive: handle deletion of empty files
     ls-files: unbreak "ls-files -i"
     t915{0,1}: use $TEST_DIRECTORY
     push: fix typo in usage
     format-patch: make "-p" suppress diffstat
     diffcore-break: free filespec data as we go
     diffcore-break: save cnt_data for other phases
     prune-packed: only show progress when stderr is a tty
     rerere: don't segfault on failure to open rr-cache
     reset: improve worktree safety valves
     add-interactive: fix deletion of non-empty files
     ignore unknown color configuration

Jens Lehmann (7):
     git-gui: display summary when showing diff of a submodule
     git-gui: fix diff for partially staged submodule changes
     git submodule add: make the <path> parameter optional
     git-gui: fix use of uninitialized variable
     add tests for git diff --submodule
     gitk: Fix diffing committed -> staged (typo in diffcmd)
     gitk: Use the --submodule option for displaying diffs when available

Jimmy Angelakos (1):
     git-gui: Added Greek translation & glossary

Jindrich Makovicka (1):
     git-gui: suppress RenderBadPicture X error caused by Tk bug

Joe Perches (1):
     git-send-email.perl: fold multiple entry "Cc:" and multiple single line "RCPT TO:"s

Johan Herland (10):
     Teach "-m <msg>" and "-F <file>" to "git notes edit"
     fast-import: Add support for importing commit notes
     t3302-notes-index-expensive: Speed up create_repo()
     Add flags to get_commit_notes() to control the format of the note string
     Teach notes code to free its internal data structures on request
     Teach the notes lookup code to parse notes trees with various fanout schemes
     Add selftests verifying that we can parse notes trees with various fanouts
     Refactor notes code to concatenate multiple notes annotating the same object
     Add selftests verifying concatenation of multiple notes for the same commit
     Fix crasher on encountering SHA1-like non-note in notes tree

Johannes Schindelin (11):
     print_wrapped_text(): allow hard newlines
     Add strbuf_add_wrapped_text() to utf8.[ch]
     Introduce commit notes
     Add a script to edit/inspect notes
     Speed up git notes lookup
     Add an expensive test for git-notes
     Add '%N'-format for pretty-printing commit notes
     Add the --submodule option to the diff option family
     blame: make sure that the last line ends in an LF
     help -a: do not unnecessarily look for a repository
     diff --color-words -U0: fix the location of hunk headers

Johannes Sixt (7):
     remote-curl: add missing initialization of argv0_path
     Remove a left-over file from t/t5100
     Mark files in t/t5100 as UTF-8
     Windows: use BLK_SHA1 again
     t4014-format-patch: do not assume 'test' is available as non-builtin
     Add a notice that only certain functions can print color escape codes
     help.autocorrect: do not run a command if the command given is junk

Jonathan Nieder (40):
     Add tests for git check-ref-format
     Documentation: describe check-ref-format --branch
     check-ref-format: simplify --print implementation
     clone: detect extra arguments
     Handle more shell metacharacters in editor names
     Add intermediate build products to .gitignore
     Retire fetch--tool helper to contrib/examples
     Show usage string for 'git grep -h'
     Show usage string for 'git cherry -h'
     Show usage string for 'git commit-tree -h'
     Show usage string for 'git merge-ours -h'
     Show usage string for 'git show-ref -h'
     check-ref-format: update usage string
     merge: do not setup worktree twice
     http-fetch: add missing initialization of argv0_path
     Show usage string for 'git check-ref-format -h'
     Show usage string for 'git fast-import -h'
     Show usage string for 'git get-tar-commit-id -h'
     Show usage string for 'git imap-send -h'
     Show usage string for 'git mailsplit -h'
     Show usage string for 'git merge-one-file -h'
     Show usage string for 'git rev-parse -h'
     Show usage string for 'git show-index -h'
     Show usage string for 'git unpack-file -h'
     Show usage string for 'git stripspace -h'
     Let 'git http-fetch -h' show usage outside any git repository
     Show usage string for 'git http-push -h'
     Let 'git <command> -h' show usage without a git dir
     Introduce usagef() that takes a printf-style format
     merge-{recursive,subtree}: use usagef() to print usage
     diff --no-index: make the usage string less scary
     Do not use VISUAL editor on dumb terminals
     Suppress warnings from "git var -l"
     Teach git var about GIT_EDITOR
     Teach git var about GIT_PAGER
     add -i, send-email, svn, p4, etc: use "git var GIT_EDITOR"
     am -i, git-svn: use "git var GIT_PAGER"
     Provide a build time default-editor setting
     Speed up bash completion loading
     Makefile: do not clean arm directory

Julian Phillips (4):
     fetch: Speed up fetch by rewriting find_non_local_tags
     remote: Make ref_remove_duplicates faster for large numbers of refs
     fetch: Speed up fetch of large numbers of refs
     remote: fix use-after-free error detected by glibc in ref_remove_duplicates

Junio C Hamano (86):
     mailinfo: -b option keeps [bracketed] strings that is not a [PATCH] marker
     apply --whitespace=fix: fix handling of blank lines at the eof
     apply --whitespace=fix: detect new blank lines at eof correctly
     apply.c: split check_whitespace() into two
     apply --whitespace=warn/error: diagnose blank at EOF
     apply --whitespace: warn blank but not necessarily empty lines at EOF
     diff.c: the builtin_diff() deals with only two-file comparison
     diff --whitespace=warn/error: obey blank-at-eof
     diff --whitespace=warn/error: fix blank-at-eof check
     diff --color: color blank-at-eof
     core.whitespace: split trailing-space into blank-at-{eol,eof}
     diff --whitespace: fix blank lines at end
     diff.c: shuffling code around
     diff.c: split emit_line() from the first char and the rest of the line
     diff.c: emit_add_line() takes only the rest of the line
     diff -B: colour whitespace errors
     Pretty-format: %[+-]x to tweak inter-item newlines
     diff-lib.c: fix misleading comments on oneway_diff()
     unpack-trees: typofix
     unpack_callback(): use unpack_failed() consistently
     git check-ref-format --print
     info/grafts: allow trailing whitespaces at the end of line
     GIT 1.6.5.1
     Start 1.6.6 cycle
     check_filename(): make verify_filename() callable without dying
     DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
     format_commit_message(): fix function signature
     fsck: default to "git fsck --full"
     git checkout --no-guess
     gc --auto --quiet: make the notice a bit less verboase
     receive-pack: run "gc --auto --quiet" and optionally "update-server-info"
     Fix incorrect error check while reading deflated pack data
     Teach --wrap to only indent without wrapping
     Do not fail "describe --always" in a tag-less repository
     Fix list of released versions in the toc document
     GIT 1.6.5.2
     Update draft release notes to 1.6.6
     clone: fix help on options
     Revert "Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init"
     diff --color-words: bit of clean-up
     t1200: further modernize test script style
     t1200: prepare for merging with Fast-forward bikeshedding
     builtin-commit.c: fix logic to omit empty line before existing footers
     git-describe.txt: formatting fix
     check-ref-format -h: it does not know the --print option yet
     Provide a build time default-pager setting
     Git 1.6.5.3
     Update draft release notes to 1.6.6
     read_revision_from_stdin(): use strbuf
     Teach --stdin option to "log" family
     setup_revisions(): do not call get_pathspec() too early
     Make --stdin option to "log" family read also pathspecs
     diffcore-rename: reduce memory footprint by freeing blob data early
     Documentation: avoid xmlto input error
     t9001: test --envelope-sender option of send-email
     Git v1.6.6-rc0
     Add trivial tests for --stdin option to log family
     Protect scripted Porcelains from GREP_OPTIONS insanity
     builtin-apply.c: pay attention to -p<n> when determining the name
     Remove dead code from "git am"
     emit_line(): don't emit an empty <SET><RESET> followed by a newline
     Update draft release notes to 1.6.6 before merging topics for -rc1
     git-merge: a deprecation notice of the ancient command line syntax
     Update draft release notes to 1.6.6 before -rc1
     Do not misidentify "git merge foo HEAD" as an old-style invocation
     merge: do not add standard message when message is given with -m option
     Prepare for 1.6.5.4
     Git 1.6.6-rc1
     Documentation/Makefile: allow man.base.url.for.relative.link to be set from Make
     Unconditionally set man.base.url.for.relative.links
     Git 1.6.5.4
     Documentation: xmlto 0.0.18 does not know --stringparam
     Prepare for 1.6.5.5
     Git 1.6.5.5
     Revert recent "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." deprecation
     Update draft release notes to 1.6.6 before -rc2
     Git 1.6.6-rc2
     Remove post-upload-hook
     Fix archive format with -- on the command line
     Git 1.6.5.6
     Update Release Notes for 1.6.6 to remove old bugfixes
     worktree: don't segfault with an absolute pathspec without a work tree
     Git 1.6.5.7
     Git 1.6.6-rc3
     Git 1.6.6-rc4
     Git 1.6.6

Linus Torvalds (2):
     Add '--bisect' revision machinery argument
     Fix diff -B/--dirstat miscounting of newly added contents

Lukas Sandström (1):
     git am/mailinfo: Don't look at in-body headers when rebasing

Marius Storm-Olsen (1):
     MSVC: Enable OpenSSL, and translate -lcrypto

Mark Lodato (5):
     http-backend: add GIT_PROJECT_ROOT environment var
     http-backend: reword some documentation
     http-backend: use mod_alias instead of mod_rewrite
     http-backend: add example for gitweb on same URL
     http-backend: more explict LocationMatch

Mark Rada (3):
     gitweb: check given hash before trying to create snapshot
     instaweb: support mod_cgid for apache2
     gitweb: Smarter snapshot names

Markus Heidelberg (4):
     t7800-difftool: fix the effectless GIT_DIFFTOOL_PROMPT test
     bash completion: difftool accepts the same options as diff
     t4034-diff-words: add a test for word diff without context
     gitk: Fix "git gui blame" invocation when called from top-level directory

Martin Storsjö (3):
     Disable CURLOPT_NOBODY before enabling CURLOPT_PUT and CURLOPT_POST
     Refactor winsock initialization into a separate function
     Enable support for IPv6 on MinGW

Matt Kraai (2):
     grep: do not segfault when -f is used
     Documentation/git-gc.txt: change "references" to "reference"

Matthew Ogilvie (6):
     core.autocrlf documentation: mention the crlf attribute
     cvsserver doc: database generally can not be reproduced consistently
     config documentation: some configs are auto-set by git-init
     t2300: use documented technique to invoke git-sh-setup
     t3409 t4107 t7406 t9150: use dashless commands
     t/README: Document GIT_TEST_INSTALLED and GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH

Matthieu Moy (6):
     Expand ~ and ~user in core.excludesfile, commit.template
     expand_user_path: expand ~ to $HOME, not to the actual homedir.
     merge-recursive: point the user to commit when file would be overwritten.
     user-manual: Document that "git merge" doesn't like uncommited changes.
     merge-recursive: make the error-message generation an extern function
     builtin-merge: show user-friendly error messages for fast-forward too.

Michael J Gruber (2):
     Make t9150 and t9151 test scripts executable
     Documentation: Fix a few i.e./e.g. mix-ups

Miklos Vajna (1):
     git-stash documentation: mention default options for 'list'

Mizar (2):
     gitk: Add Japanese translation
     gitk: Update Japanese translation

Nanako Shiraishi (5):
     git push: remove incomplete options list from help text
     git push: say that --tag can't be used with --all or --mirror in help text
     t1200: fix a timing dependent error
     prepare send-email for smoother change of --chain-reply-to default
     Illustrate "filter" attribute with an example

Nasser Grainawi (1):
     Document `delta` attribute in "git help attributes".

Nicolas Pitre (4):
     change throughput display units with fast links
     pack-objects: move thread autodetection closer to relevant code
     give priority to progress messages
     pack-objects: split implications of --all-progress from progress activation

Pat Thoyts (4):
     gitk: Use themed tk widgets
     gitk: Fix errors in the theme patch
     gitk: Default to the system colours on Windows
     gitk: Fix selection of tags

Paul Mackerras (5):
     gitk: Restore scrolling position of diff pane on back/forward in history
     gitk: Add a user preference to enable/disable use of themed widgets
     gitk: Show diff of commits at end of compare-commits output
     gitk: Don't compare fake children when comparing commits
     gitk: Improve appearance of radiobuttons and checkbuttons

Pauli Virtanen (1):
     git-add--interactive: never skip files included in index

Petr Baudis (1):
     gitweb: Fix blob linenr links in pathinfo mode

Philippe Bruhat (1):
     Make sure $PERL_PATH is defined when the test suite is run.

Raman Gupta (1):
     Add branch management for releases to gitworkflows

Ramsay Allan Jones (5):
     Makefile: merge two Cygwin configuration sections into one
     Makefile: keep MSVC and Cygwin configuration separate
     MSVC: Add support for building with NO_MMAP
     t9700-perl-git.sh: Fix a test failure on Cygwin
     git-count-objects: Fix a disk-space under-estimate on Cygwin

René Scharfe (9):
     describe: load refnames before calling describe()
     Implement wrap format %w() as if it is a mode switch
     log --format: don't ignore %w() at the start of format string
     grep: unset GREP_OPTIONS before spawning external grep
     strbuf_add_wrapped_text(): factor out strbuf_add_indented_text()
     log --format: document %w
     strbuf_add_wrapped_text(): skip over colour codes
     mergetool--lib: simplify guess_merge_tool()
     archive: clarify description of path parameter

Robert Zeh (1):
     git svn: add test for a git svn gc followed by a git svn mkdirs

Robin Rosenberg (1):
     Don't create the $GIT_DIR/branches directory on init

SZEDER Gábor (2):
     Documentation: add 'git replace' to main git manpage
     bash: update 'git commit' completion

Sam Vilain (10):
     git-svn: add test data for SVK merge, with script.
     git-svn: allow test setup script to support PERL env. var
     git-svn: convert SVK merge tickets to extra parents
     git-svn: add test data for SVN 1.5+ merge, with script.
     git-svn: convert SVN 1.5+ / svnmerge.py svn:mergeinfo props to parents
     git-svn: expand the svn mergeinfo test suite, highlighting some failures
     git-svn: memoize conversion of SVN merge ticket info to git commit ranges
     git-svn: fix some mistakes with interpreting SVN mergeinfo commit ranges
     git-svn: exclude already merged tips using one rev-list call
     git-svn: detect cherry-picks correctly.

Scott Chacon (2):
     mergetool--lib: add p4merge as a pre-configured mergetool option
     Update packfile transfer protocol documentation

Sebastian Schuberth (3):
     Do not try to remove directories when removing old links
     Use faster byte swapping when compiling with MSVC
     Make the MSVC projects use PDB/IDB files named after the project

Shawn O. Pearce (28):
     git-gui: Ensure submodule path is quoted properly
     sha1_file: Fix infinite loop when pack is corrupted
     pkt-line: Add strbuf based functions
     pkt-line: Make packet_read_line easier to debug
     fetch-pack: Use a strbuf to compose the want list
     Move "get_ack()" back to fetch-pack
     Add multi_ack_detailed capability to fetch-pack/upload-pack
     remote-curl: Refactor walker initialization
     fetch: Allow transport -v -v -v to set verbosity to 3
     remote-helpers: Fetch more than one ref in a batch
     remote-helpers: Support custom transport options
     Move WebDAV HTTP push under remote-curl
     Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport
     Add stateless RPC options to upload-pack, receive-pack
     Smart fetch and push over HTTP: server side
     Discover refs via smart HTTP server when available
     Smart push over HTTP: client side
     Smart fetch over HTTP: client side
     Smart HTTP fetch: gzip requests
     http tests: use /dumb/ URL prefix
     test smart http fetch and push
     http-backend: Use http.getanyfile to disable dumb HTTP serving
     http-backend: Test configuration options
     Git-aware CGI to provide dumb HTTP transport
     http-backend: Protect GIT_PROJECT_ROOT from /../ requests
     t5551-http-fetch: Work around some libcurl versions
     t5551-http-fetch: Work around broken Accept header in libcurl
     http-backend: Fix bad treatment of uintmax_t in Content-Length

Sitaram Chamarty (1):
     gitk: Disable checkout of remote branches

Stephen Boyd (13):
     rebase -i: fix reword when using a terminal editor
     gitweb: linkify author/committer names with search
     t1402: Make test executable
     t1200: cleanup and modernize test style
     t1200: Make documentation and test agree
     git-add.txt: fix formatting of --patch section
     t3101: test more ls-tree options
     ls-tree: migrate to parse-options
     gitweb.js: fix null object exception in initials calculation
     instaweb: restart server if already running
     gitweb.js: fix padLeftStr() and its usage
     api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor()
     technical-docs: document hash API

Tarmigan Casebolt (3):
     Check the format of more printf-type functions
     http-backend: Fix access beyond end of string.
     http-backend: Let gcc check the format of more printf-type functions.

Tay Ray Chuan (3):
     http-push: fix check condition on http.c::finish_http_pack_request()
     t5540-http-push: remove redundant fetches
     remote-curl.c: fix rpc_out()

Thiago Farina (1):
     Documentation: update pt-BR

Thomas Rast (15):
     bash completion: complete refs for git-grep
     Let --decorate show HEAD position
     Refactor pretty_print_commit arguments into a struct
     reflog-walk: refactor the branch@{num} formatting
     Introduce new pretty formats %g[sdD] for reflog information
     stash list: use new %g formats instead of sed
     stash list: drop the default limit of 10 stashes
     Quote ' as \(aq in manpages
     describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work
     filter-branch: stop special-casing $filter_subdir argument
     filter-branch: nearest-ancestor rewriting outside subdir filter
     Documentation: clarify 'ours' merge strategy
     rebase docs: clarify --merge and --strategy
     Document git-svn's first-parent rule
     describe: do not use unannotated tag even if exact match

Tim Henigan (2):
     Update 'git remote update' usage string to match man page.
     git remote: Separate usage strings for subcommands

Toby Allsopp (1):
     git svn: handle SVN merges from revisions past the tip of the branch

Todd Zullinger (2):
     Makefile: Ensure rpm packages can be read by older rpm versions
     Documentation: Avoid use of xmlto --stringparam

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
     shortlog: respect commit encoding

Vietor Liu (2):
     git-gui: adjust the minimum height of diff pane for shorter screen height
     imap-send.c: fix compiler warnings for OpenSSL 1.0

Štěpán Němec (1):
     git-update-index.txt: Document the --really-refresh option.

See also