From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.6.4.4 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:26:42 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4or2wjwt.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 Sep 17 01:27:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mo3uC-0000V8-W6 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:27:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933561AbZIPX04 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760403AbZIPX0z (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:55 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:50153 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755281AbZIPX0y (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:54 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E205350B; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:57 -0400 (EDT) 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=AOUE VCR+eP96B4SJJ7058eoAmhA=; b=L818Y97Zt6dNXU6cin6C7VyUzKaevOwZM+dR IXitWeWg0uQhr2kwtIXjXwHzang5qvFRX16h23nXL558XBQsplU2WRkqTNYnD7eB 4YJ9Bg14p9UGREYzMSdlQpToTg/Vl2eFC2lBs8Ou+T5YJyLfG7rTOiSNOHRn+5VQ v3NFfDE= 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=EfQ n4H9ftCd5ZwrZbN55kgVfZ2Yw8fQXoJT3TcuQkHhQ+MbqmpFfwtnTsp5VXmHg7C5 WOHFBmCnWM7ocBb0U9Lb7AP+1VBdmxd/hNnKewL5ikgshDwlCl4G7eCkwXF0C5Ha CAJHjPy4T3oy8f1ngZE7iF8MoyFqQgqok2m77Zm4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B334353508; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:53 -0400 (EDT) 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-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C3B2E53507; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:26:44 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6AF82356-A318-11DE-8152-8B19076EA04E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The latest maintenance release GIT 1.6.4.4 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.6.4.4.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.4.4-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) This is primarily to fix a http regression introduced by 1.6.4.3 GIT v1.6.4.4 Release Notes ========================== Fixes since v1.6.4.4 -------------------- * The workaround for Github server that sometimes gave 500 (Internal server error) response to HEAD requests in 1.6.4.3 introduced a regression that caused re-fetching projects over http to segfault in certain cases due to uninitialized pointer being freed. * "git pull" on an unborn branch used to consider anything in the work tree and the index discardable. * "git diff -b/w" did not work well on the incomplete line at the end of the file, due to an incorrect hashing of lines in the low-level xdiff routines. * "git checkout-index --prefix=$somewhere" used to work when $somewhere is a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere, but v1.6.4.2 broke it. * "git unpack-objects --strict", invoked when receive.fsckobjects configuration is set in the receiving repository of "git push", did not properly check the objects, especially the submodule links, it received. Other minor documentation updates are included.