From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.6.5.8 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:50:17 -0800 Message-ID: <7v3a20z3g6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 21 01:50:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXlFl-0005X8-8B for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:50:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752194Ab0AUAuZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751431Ab0AUAuZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:25 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:57768 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751082Ab0AUAuY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:24 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB6092CDE; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:21 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:subject :from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=8j2G svKafhkGOlFKz0Y+Kn3dooc=; b=raA/gLclLlSfi5L3blnK+cFv9bsm9+mgLqx4 kLvC7Kpf6J3W3FxPPRkkoN/xZba1j8BK7pXQdgfyQaMM+qfQ2ItHGqTdtmBG70Du J5/x/BUeOSNxunVMntZM2qEM9Z6s5YRmCI1hPuvEkj35evHGNzdGl9SXFZzq84IP 7n6r+bU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:subject:from :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=bhC S5ut43r1dq/L3aJ0iS8ZHbke+HmGvvS/T1SgfP8+xvTL89RznTFVMeXTRFvCTkq+ e7NulrFfKE4agEii+ebVmlHWdx6BjuKuWPCHzfXSvDDcQgkuPhzPI132oYip7P0K ToS6Y+Y6X+A/uJR45xTQBAT0HvA7fS6r2mlW15mc= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9792092CDD; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F3FCB92CD8; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:50:18 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F35CFDD6-0626-11DF-8FA4-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: An maintenance release Git 1.6.5.8 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.5.8.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.8-1.fc11.$arch.rpm (RPM) Git v1.6.5.8 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.5.7 -------------------- * "git count-objects" did not handle packfiles that are bigger than 4G on platforms with 32-bit off_t. * "git rebase -i" did not abort cleanly if it failed to launch the editor. * "git blame" did not work well when commit lacked the author name. * "git fast-import" choked when handling a tag that points at an object that is not a commit. * "git reset --hard" did not work correctly when GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable is used to point at the root of the true work tree. * "git grep" fed a buffer that is not NUL-terminated to underlying regexec(). * "git checkout -m other" while on a branch that does not have any commit segfaulted, instead of failing. * "git branch -a other" should have diagnosed the command as an error. Other minor documentation updates are also included.