GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes

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GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes
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Fixes since v1.6.2
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* .gitignore learned to handle backslash as a quoting mechanism for
  comment introduction character "#".

* timestamp output in --date=relative mode used to display timestamps that
  are long time ago in the default mode; it now uses "N years M months
  ago", and "N years ago".

* git-add -i/-p now works with non-ASCII pathnames.

* "git hash-object -w" did not read from the configuration file from the
  correct .git directory.

* git-send-email learned to correctly handle multiple Cc: addresses.

Title: GIT v1.6.2.1 Release Notes

Summary

This release of GIT fixes several issues, including handling of backslashes in .gitignore files, timestamp output, and git-add functionality with non-ASCII pathnames, as well as improving git-send-email and git hash-object commands.