GIT v1.6.2 Release Notes
========================

With the next major release, "git push" into a branch that is
currently checked out will be refused by default.  You can choose
what should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration
variable receive.denyCurrentBranch in the receiving repository.

To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a
push running this release will issue a big warning when the
configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:

  https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq.html#non-bare
  https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/

for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
transition plan.

For a similar reason, "git push $there :$killed" to delete the branch
$killed in a remote repository $there, if $killed branch is the current
branch pointed at by its HEAD, gets a large warning.  You can choose what
should happen upon such a push by setting the configuration variable
receive.denyDeleteCurrent in the receiving repository.


Updates since v1.6.1
--------------------

(subsystems)

* git-svn updates.

* gitweb updates, including a new patch view and RSS/Atom feed
  improvements.

* (contrib/emacs) git.el now has commands for checking out a branch,
  creating a branch, cherry-picking and reverting commits; vc-git.el
  is not shipped with git anymore (it is part of official Emacs).

(performance)

* pack-objects autodetects the number of CPUs available and uses threaded
  version.

(usability, bells and whistles)

* automatic typo correction works on aliases as well

* @{-1} is a way to refer to the last branch you were on.  This is
  accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere
  a branch name is expected and acts as if you typed the branch name.
  E.g. "git branch --track mybranch @{-1}", "git merge @{-1}", and
  "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}" would work as expected.

* When refs/remotes/origin/HEAD points at a remote tracking branch that
  has been pruned away, many git operations issued warning when they
  internally enumerated the refs.  We now warn only when you say "origin"
  to refer to that pruned branch.

* The location of .mailmap file can be configured, and its file format was
  enhanced to allow mapping an incorrect e-mail field as well.

* "git add -p" learned 'g'oto action to jump directly to a hunk.

* "git add -p" learned to find a hunk with given text with '/'.

* "git add -p" optionally can be told to work with just the command letter
  without Enter.

* when "git am" stops upon a patch that does not apply, it shows the
  title of the offending patch.

* "git am --directory=<dir>" and "git am --reject" passes these options
  to underlying "git apply".

* "git am" learned --ignore-date option.

* "git blame" aligns author names better when they are spelled in
  non US-ASCII encoding.

* "git clone" now makes its best effort when cloning