importantly quickly and trivially fixable. Every now and
then, a "feature release" is cut from the tip of this branch and
they typically are named with three dotted decimal digits. The
-last such release was 1.6.2 done on Mar 3rd 2009. You
+last such release was 1.6.3 done on May 6th 2009. You
can expect that the tip of the "master" branch is always more
stable than any of the released versions.
after a feature release are applied to this branch and
maintenance releases are cut from it. The maintenance releases
are named with four dotted decimal, named after the feature
-release they are updates to; the last such release was 1.6.1.3.
+release they are updates to; the last such release was 1.6.2.5.
New features never go to this branch. This branch is also
merged into "master" to propagate the fixes forward.
- Alexandre Julliard on Emacs integration.
- - Charles Bailey for git-mergetool (and Theodore Ts'o for creating
- the tool).
+ - Charles Bailey for taking good care of git-mergetool (and Theodore
+ Ts'o for creating it in the first place).
+
+ - David Aguilar for git-difftool.
- Johannes Schindelin, Johannes Sixt and others for their effort
to move things forward on the Windows front.
- People on non-Linux platforms for keeping their eyes on
portability; especially, Randal Schwartz, Theodore Ts'o,
- Jason Riedy, Thomas Glanzmann, Brandon Casey, but countless
- others as well.
+ Jason Riedy, Thomas Glanzmann, Brandon Casey, Jeff King,
+ Alex Riesen and countless others.
* This document