It's been a while since I sent the "What's in" report. Hopefully we can do an -rc4 this weekend and then 1.6.3 final next week.
* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since 1.6.2.3
Allan Caffee (2): builtin-merge: fix a typo in an error message Documentation: fix a grammatical error in api-builtin.txt
Björn Steinbrink (1): tree_entry_interesting: a pathspec only matches at directory boundary
Clemens Buchacher (3): add tests for merging with submodules update cache for conflicting submodule entries simplify output of conflicting merge
Erik Faye-Lund (4): test-suite: adding a test for fast-export with tag variants builtin-fast-export.c: turn error into warning builtin-fast-export.c: fix crash on tagged trees builtin-fast-export.c: handle nested tags
Frank Lichtenheld (2): init: Do not segfault on big GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR environment variable gitcvs-migration: Link to git-cvsimport documentation
Jeff King (2): doc/gitattributes: clarify location of config text add-interactive: refactor mode hunk handling
Johan Herland (1):
Update docs on behaviour of 'core.sharedRepository' and 'git init
--shared'Johannes Schindelin (2): Fix 'git checkout <submodule>' to update the index Fix off-by-one in read_tree_recursive
Johannes Sixt (1): t1301-shared-repo: fix forced modes test
Junio C Hamano (4): match_tree_entry(): a pathspec only matches at directory boundaries Describe fixes since 1.6.2.3 GIT 1.6.2.4 diff -c -p: do not die on submodules
Junio Hamano (1): Speed up reflog pruning of unreachable commits
Linus Torvalds (2):
Clean up reflog unreachability pruning decision
grep: fix segfault when "git grep '('" is givenMarkus Heidelberg (2): doc/git-daemon: add missing arguments to options doc/git-daemon: add missing arguments to max-connections option
Matthieu Moy (2): git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt. Update git-add.txt according to the new possibilities of 'git add -p'.
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (1):
Makefile: remove {fetch,send}-pack from PROGRAMS as they are builtinsPaul Bolle (1): imap-send: use correct configuration variable in documentation
Stephen Boyd (1): test-genrandom: Add newline to usage string
Thomas Jarosch (1): Fix buffer overflow in config parser
Ulrich Windl (1): git-apply: fix option description
* The 'master' branch has these since 1.6.3-rc0 in addition to the above.
Alex Riesen (3): Wait for git diff to finish in git difftool Explain seemingly pointless use of system in difftool improve error message in config.c
Allan Caffee (4): graph API: Added logic for colored edges t4202-log: extend test coverage of graphing graph API: fix extra space during pre_commit_line state graph API: fix a bug in the rendering of octopus merges
Ben Jackson (1): Work around ash "alternate value" expansion bug
Benjamin Kramer (2): connect: replace inet_ntop with getnameinfo daemon.c: fix segfault on OS X
Bert Wesarg (3): shorten_unambiguous_ref(): add strict mode for-each-ref: utilize core.warnAmbiguousRefs for :short-format rev-parse: --abbrev-ref option to shorten ref name
Bill Pemberton (1): Add parsing of elm aliases to git-send-email
Brandon Casey (2): t9001: use older Getopt::Long boolean prefix '--no' rather than '--no-' t7700-repack: repack -a now works properly, expect success from test
Dan Loewenherz (1): Convert to use quiet option when available
David Aguilar (11): difftool: remove merge options for opendiff, tkdiff, kdiff3 and xxdiff difftool: remove the backup file feature difftool: use perl built-ins when testing for msys difftool: add a -y shortcut for --no-prompt difftool: move 'git-difftool' out of contrib difftool: add various git-difftool tests difftool: add support for a difftool.prompt config variable bash completion: add git-difftool mergetool: use $( ... ) instead of `backticks` difftool/mergetool: refactor commands to use git-mergetool--lib mergetool--lib: simplify API usage by removing more global variables
Eric Blake (2): Makefile: installing git in cygwin 1.7.0 doc: consistently use ASCIIDOC_EXTRA
Erik Broes (1): git-shell: Add 'git-upload-archive' to allowed commands.
Felipe Contreras (1): git config: error when editing a repo config and not being in one
Ferry Huberts (1): Fix misspelled mergetool.keepBackup
Holger Weiß (1): gitweb: Fix snapshots requested via PATH_INFO
Jeff King (8): doc: clarify --no-track option doc: refer to tracking configuration as "upstream" doc/checkout: refer to git-branch(1) as appropriate doc/checkout: split checkout and branch creation in synopsis docs/checkout: clarify what "non-branch" means add-interactive: refactor mode hunk handling t7800: respect NO_PERL Makefile: fix NO_PERL bug with gitweb
Johannes Schindelin (3):
Add an option not to use link(src, dest) && unlink(src) when that is
unreliable
t5701: do not get stuck in empty-push/
Rename core.unreliableHardlinks to core.createObjectJohannes Sixt (5): Windows: Work around intermittent failures in mingw_rename Windows: Skip fstat/lstat optimization in write_entry() builtin-help: silently tolerate unknown keys remote.c: do not trigger remote.<name>.<var> codepath for two-level names prune-packed: advanced progress even for non-existing fan-out directories
Junio C Hamano (11): gitignore git-bisect--helper unpack-trees: do not muck with attributes when we are not checking out Update draft release notes to 1.6.3 read-tree A B: do not corrupt cache-tree Move prime_cache_tree() to cache-tree.c read-tree -m A B: prime cache-tree from the switched-to tree checkout branch: prime cache-tree fully Revert "stat_tracking_info(): only count real commits" Makefile: ignore perl/ subdirectory under NO_PERL GIT 1.6.3-rc2 merge-recursive: do not die on a conflicting submodule
Linus Torvalds (4):
Allow users to un-configure rename detection
process_{tree,blob}: show objects without buffering
show_object(): push path_name() call further down
t4202: fix typoMark Drago (1): Add semicolon to curly brace group in main Makefile
Markus Heidelberg (4): doc/merge-config: list ecmerge as a built-in merge tool git-mergetool/difftool: make (g)vimdiff workable under Windows git-mergetool: add new merge tool TortoiseMerge grep: don't support "grep.color"-like config options
Matthieu Moy (3): git add -p: new "quit" command at the prompt. Update git-add.txt according to the new possibilities of 'git add -p'. clone: add test for push on an empty clone.
Michael J Gruber (3): remote.c: use shorten_unambiguous_ref test-lib.sh: Help test_create_repo() find the templates dir Fix more typos/spelling in comments
Michał Kiedrowicz (6): tests: test applying criss-cross rename patch builtin-apply: keep information about files to be deleted Documentation: boolean value may be given by on/off tests: test applying criss-cross rename patch builtin-apply: keep information about files to be deleted tests: make test-apply-criss-cross-rename more robust
Mike Ralphson (3): builtin-remote: fix typo in option description Documentation: fix typos / spelling mistakes Fix typos / spelling in comments
Nanako Shiraishi (1): git-am: teach git-am to apply a patch to an unborn branch
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3): get_local_heads(): do not return random pointer if there is no head attr: add GIT_ATTR_INDEX "direction" archive: do not read .gitattributes in working directory
Nicolas Pitre (1): progress bar: round to the nearest instead of truncating down
Patrick Welche (1): NetBSD compilation fix
Pierre Habouzit (1): hook/update: example of how to prevent branch creation
René Scharfe (2): archive tests: do not use .gitattributes in working directory archive test: attributes
Sam Vilain (1): SubmittingPatches: itemize and reflect upon well written changes
Sebastian Pipping (1): difftool/mergetool: add diffuse as merge and diff tool
Sitaram Chamarty (1): Remove obsolete bug warning in man git-update-server-info
Stephen Boyd (7):
config.txt: add missing format.{subjectprefix,cc,attach} variables
Documentation: use lowercase for shallow and deep threading
git-show-branch.txt: cleanup example description
git-format-patch.txt: general rewordings and cleanups
config.txt: add missing 'the's and make words plural
config.txt: clarify sentences in the configuration and syntax sections
config.txt: Make configuration paragraph more consistentUwe Kleine-König (1): parseopt: fix documentation for --keep-dashdash
Wesley J. Landaker (4): Documentation: git-svn: fix spurious bolding that mangles the output Documentation: git-svn: fix a grammatical error without awkwardness Documentation: git-clean: fix minor grammatical errors Documentation: git-clean: make description more readable
Wincent Colaiuta (1): git add -p: add missing "q" to patch prompt