1.6.2.2

GIT v1.6.2.2 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.6.2.1 --------------------

• A longstanding confusing description of what --pickaxe option of git-diff does has been clarified in the documentation.

• "git-blame -S" did not quite work near the commits that were given on the command line correctly.

• "git diff --pickaxe-regexp" did not count overlapping matches correctly.

• "git diff" did not feed files in work-tree representation to external diff and textconv.

• "git-fetch" in a repository that was not cloned from anywhere said it cannot find ’origin’, which was hard to understand for new people.

• "git-format-patch --numbered-files --stdout" did not have to die of incompatible options; it now simply ignores --numbered-files as no files are produced anyway.

• "git-ls-files --deleted" did not work well with GIT_DIR&GIT_WORK_TREE.

• "git-read-tree A B C…" without -m option has been broken for a long time.

• git-send-email ignored --in-reply-to when --no-thread was given.

• ’git-submodule add’ did not tolerate extra slashes and ./ in the path it accepted from the command line; it now is more lenient.

• git-svn misbehaved when the project contained a path that began with two dashes.

• import-zips script (in contrib) did not compute the common directory prefix correctly.

• miscompilation of negated enum constants by old gcc (2.9) affected the codepaths to spawn subprocesses.

Many small documentation updates are included as well.