1.6.5.4

Git v1.6.5.4 Release Notes ==========================

Fixes since v1.6.5.3 --------------------

• "git help" (without argument) used to check if you are in a directory under git control. There was no breakage in behaviour per-se, but this was unnecessary.

• "git prune-packed" gave progress output even when its standard error is not connected to a terminal; this caused cron jobs that run it to produce cruft.

• "git pack-objects --all-progress" is an option to ask progress output from write-object phase if progress output were to be produced, and shouldn’t have forced the progress output.

• "git apply -p<n> --directory=<elsewhere>" did not work well for a non-default value of n.

• "git merge foo HEAD" was misparsed as an old-style invocation of the command and produced a confusing error message. As it does not specify any other branch to merge, it shouldn’t be mistaken as such. We will remove the old style "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>…" syntax in future versions, but not in this release,

• "git merge -m <message> <branch>…" added the standard merge message on its own after user-supplied message, which should have overridden the standard one.

Other minor documentation updates are included.